This Everest season, Karl Egloff and Tyler Andrews will try speed ascents. Kaji Sherpa holds the record, set in 1998, but not ...

We intend to start using oxygen at Camp V, which is about the elevation of the South Col on the south side of Everest (26,000 feet). The route from Camp V to Camp VI leaves the North Ridge and ...

While there are many discovered and named climbing routes on Everest, two routes are most commonly climbed: The South Col route starting from Nepal, and the Northeast Ridge Standard, or The North ...

“That route has no problem with heat or sun later in the season.” The North Side of Everest is also less affected by the arrival of the monsoon, which comes from the Bay of Bengal in the south.

Mt. Everest may get smart solar-powered traffic lights and advisory signs, all linked to the number of climbers and weather ...

2. Mallory's route was eventually completed by a Chinese expedition in 1960, but although hundreds of climbers have been to the North Face and Northeast Ridge of Everest in recent years ...

Did Mallory and Irvine reach the summit of Everest in 1924? This question (and mystery ... Three hours later the two were on the summit. For the record, the route via the north side had also been ...