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Capt. Tim Bradshaw was on Everest as the earth shook. "It felt like half an hour, but I think it was probably more like 10 seconds," he told CBS Radio News from base camp. Deadly aftershock rocks ...
Climbers ascending Mount Everest will be expected to collect their poop in doggy bags and carry their waste back to base camp, according to new regulations from local officials as they attempt to ...
A British climber and his guide who reached the summit of Mount Everest have been missing since Tuesday, and are presumed dead in the mountain’s so-called "death zone," while attempting to ...
Two missing climbers are believed to be dead after part of an icy ridge collapsed on Mount Everest during a lethal week on the world’s tallest peak. British climber Daniel Paterson, 39, and his ...
A new proposal from Nepal aims to tighten requirements and improve climber safety on the world's tallest peak, but such proposals rarely become law.
This photograph taken on May 31, 2021 shows mountaineers lined up as they climb a slope during their ascend to summit Mount Everest (8,848.86-metre), in Nepal. Lakpa Sherpa/AFP/Getty Images/File ...
According to CNN, Mount Everest climbers will now be given two bags for their waste that must come back down with them. The biodegradable bags, the outlet said, contain a chemical that makes human ...
Mount Everest, always perilous to climb, has also become increasingly and dangerously crowded in recent years. Last year, Nepal issued 416 permits, some which included more than one climber, for a ...
Summiting Everest is a feat only 5,000 people have achieved. Here's what scaling the mountain is really like, according to climbers who've done it.
Hundreds of climbers are set to return to Mount Everest for the first time next month under strict conditions, government officials and mountaineers said, as the world’s tallest peak reopens ...
KATHMANDU, Nepal — A Swiss climber and an American have died on Mt. Everest in the season’s first casualties on the world’s highest mountain, expedition organizers Thursday. A Swiss climber ...