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

KATHMANDU -- Pemba Sherpa was at the resting spot known as The Balcony, which, at 8,430 meters, is the last level area before the summit of Mount Everest, when he decided not to keep going up.

Austrian guide Lukas Furtenbach will lead a one-week trip to the top of Everest and back this year. Prior to the ascent, he ...

Everest, the world's highest peak. The Expedition Operators Association of Nepal (EOAN) today handed over ropes and necessary assignments to 8K Expeditions Pvt. Ltd. to build summit routes on Mt.

The early season features Annapurna I, the 10th highest mountain in the world, standing 8,091 meters (26,545 feet) in the Himalayas of Nepal ... Everest and K2. The push to Annapurna’s summit ...

The devices will be used to airlift heavy, dangerous loads normally carried by mountain guides ... southwest of Everest’s summit. For about a year, operators have been experimenting with ...

On Tuesday, the Expedition Operators Association of Nepal (EOAN) handed over ropes and necessary assignments to 8K Expeditions Pvt. Ltd. to build summit routes on Mt. Everest and Mt. Lhotse above ...

a startup drone company in Nepal. The catalyst for the use of drones was the latest of the many deadly tragedies involving Sherpas on Everest. In 2023, three of the mountain guides were buried ...

BEIJING--China has canceled attempts to climb Mount Everest from its side of the world's highest peak because of fears of importing COVID-19 cases from neighboring Nepal, state media reported.

Everest. In all ... He has also hiked above 17,000 feet in Nepal in 2019, and he hopes to reach the summit of 19,341-foot Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania some day. Asenov admits he doesn’t ...