Mount Everest

Why Nepal is not relocating the Everest base camp despite growing climate change threat

Sherpas, the backbone of the mountaineering industry, are opposed to Nepal's plans to relocate the Everest base camp elsewhere. Community leaders said that in addition to the proposal being impractical, the government has failed to come up with a viable alternative

Video of garbage piles at Mount Everest goes viral, Twitter calls it 'shameful'

Mount Everest has become so full of trash that it is infamously called 'world’s highest garbage dump'

Australian man dies just after reaching summit of Mount Everest, in what climbers call the ‘death zone’

His climb came 17 years after he was told he might never walk again. Back in 2006, he survived a devastating car crash back when a road train sideswiped the vehicle he was in while he was on his way to work. He was using his ascent to raise money for Spinal Cord Injuries Australia

Indian-origin Singapore man goes missing after reaching Mount Everest

A Singaporean news channel on Saturday cited Bharat as saying that a team of sherpas began search operations for Dattatraya on Saturday morning. He was reportedly last in contact with base camp officials at around 8,500 metres

Indian female mountaineer dies at Everest Base Camp, was eyeing new world record

Suzanne Leopoldina Jesus was admitted to a hospital in the Lukla town of Solukhumbu district after she complained of difficulties during the acclimatization exercises at the Mt Everest base camp. She died on Thursday

Famous Nepalese Sherpa guide sets world record, scales Mt Everest for 27th time

The 53-year-old record-holding mountain guide stood atop the 8,848.86 metres-high peak at 8:30 am on Wednesday. He regained his title for the most climbs of Mount Everest, just three days after a fellow Sherpa guide equalled his previous record

Pasang Dawa Sherpa: The Nepali Sherpa guide, who has become world's second person to scale Everest 26 times

Pasang Dawa Sherpa reached the summit of the world's highest peak on Sunday, becoming the world's second person to do so. His record comes after he completed his first successful climb in 1998

Explained: Why Nepal's famed Sherpas are leaving Mount Everest behind

Sherpas are leaving behind the climbing industry and discouraging their children from following in their footsteps. The hazards involved in climbing, meagre compensation and a scant safety net are reasons behind the move

Mystery Mountain: Why does Mount Everest make seriously terrifying sounds at night?

After sunset, Mount Everest's surrounding high-altitude glaciers erupt with loud noises. A groundbreaking study by glaciologist Evgeny Podolskiy and his team has found that the glaciers' chorus of spooky noises is because of significant dips in temperature after dusk, which cause ice to shatter

How Mount Everest has been preserving people’s germs from coughs and sneezes

The study led by the University of Colorado Boulder found climbers are leaving behind microbes that could survive in harsh climates for decades or even centuries