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A helicopter flies around the Everest region in Nepal last year. Photo: EPA-EFE
Nepal

Planning a helicopter tour of Everest? Nepal has some bad news for you

Officials say locals angry at the environmental impact of helicopter flights and loss of income from trekkers have threatened landing sites.

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Climbing and mountaineering

Who first reached Everest’s summit? This boot may help rewrite history

Nepal

At just 18, he’s already climbed all the highest peaks on Earth

Nepal

Clearing Mount Everest’s highest camp of frozen garbage to take years

Since the peak was first conquered in 1953, thousands have scaled it, leaving behind tonnes of rubbish such as tents and oxygen bottles.

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A member of the Nepal government-funded team uses a spade to remove frozen trash en route the Mount Everest in 2021. Photo: Peak Promotion via AP
Asia travel

Destinations known | Peak insanity? Another deadly pre-monsoon climbing season on Everest

The death toll of Everest climbers continues to mount, with overcrowding near the summit of the world’s highest peak a contributory factor. Why are so many so eager to reach the top?

Nepal

Indian climber dies after Everest bid, eighth death this season

Banshi Lal, 46, was plucked from the mountain last week and taken to a hospital in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu.

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Nepal

‘Courageous’ Nepali smashes women’s record for fastest Everest ascent by 11 hours

Climbers usually take days to reach the top of the 8,849-metre mountain, but Phunjo Lama conquered the world’s highest peak in 14 hours and 31 minutes.

Nepal’s Phunjo Lama has broken the record for fastest ascent to Everest by a woman. Photo: Instagram/Phunjo_lama
Nepal

Kenyan climber dies on Everest, guide missing as seasonal fatalities rise

Joshua Cheruiyot Kirui’s body was spotted between the summit and the Hillary Step, while a search team deployed to locate guide Nawang Sherpa.

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Climbing and mountaineering

Nepal’s ‘Everest man’ reaches peak for record 30th time

Kami Rita Sherpa, 54, first scaled Everest in 1994 when working for a commercial expedition. He has since climbed the mountain almost every year.

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Nepal

Everest is a dirty, trash-strewn mess. Is it too late for Nepal to fix it?

Thousands of tonnes of waste have been left on the world’s highest mountain over the years. Some working on the clean-up say the only way to stop more piling up is putting curbs on expeditions.

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Team members of the Clean Mountain Campaign sort through trash at Everest Base Camp. Photo: Clean Mountain Campaign/Handout
Nepal

Nepal’s ‘Everest Man’ notches record 29th summit of world’s highest mountain

Kami Rita Sherpa first reached the top of Mount Everest in 1994. Since then he has climbed the 8,849-metre peak almost every year, guiding clients.

Nepali guide Kami Rita Sherpa, also known as “Everest Man”. Photo: AFP
Asia travel

How the selfie crowd, unused to high-altitude trekking, are ruining Everest

As more trekkers and climbers are drawn to Mount Everest and Nepal’s other Himalayan peaks, trails and slopes are becoming overcrowded and debris-strewn.

Singapore

‘Nothing is impossible’: 5-year-old is youngest Singaporean to reach Everest camp

Abyan Imtiaz Irkiz, 5, has become the youngest Singaporean to reach the Mount Everest base camp, completing the feat with his father, Zikri Ali, on Monday.

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Nepal

‘Our mountains have begun to stink’: Everest climbers must now buy poop bags

Authorities implemented the rule in response to a smelly, unsightly situation, as the extreme cold of Everest prevents faeces from fully degrading.

A Nepalese sherpa collecting garbage, left by climbers, at an altitude of 8,000 metres during the Everest clean-up expedition at Mount Everest. Photo: AFP
Science

On the roof of the world, a Chinese team tests extremes of environmental science

Researchers summit Cho Oyu, one of the planet’s highest mountains to monitor high-altitude changes and their effects on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

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A Chinese research team reaches the summit of Cho Oyu, the world’s sixth-highest peak. Photo: Xinhua
Pakistan

Video | Mountaineer's mission: Restoring the majestic beauty of K2

European Union

‘Death threats’ as record-breaking climber denies stepping over dying sherpa to reach top

Kristin Harila said she and her team did everything they could at the time for 27-year-old Mohammed Hassan, a sherpa from another team, after drone footage shared by other climbers on social media showed her and others on a narrow, harrowing passage, stepping over his body.

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Nepal

Record-holding Everest climber blames Nepal firms for deaths, urges inquiry

British climber Kenton Cool, who holds the record for the most ascents of Everest by anyone born outside Nepal, says some operators are putting profits ahead of safety.

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More people than ever before are climbing Mount Everest and there have “multiple deaths due to a lack of experience and support”, says veteran climber. Photo: AP
Science

How deep is the snow on Mount Everest? A Chinese team has new answers

The results could help understand the effects of climate change at extremely high elevations, researchers say.

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Trending in China

Chinese woman refuses to pay US$10,000 fee after Everest rescue, angering public

A woman found unconscious on Mount Everest is under fire for refusing to pay a rescue fee or thank the two climbers who gave up their summit dream to risk their lives saving her.

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Malaysia

Malaysian climber slammed for not thanking Sherpa who rescued him from Everest

In an Instagram post, Ravichandran Tharumalingam thanked his rescue insurance and partner organisations, but omitted Gelje Sherpa’s name, who found him stuck in Everest’s infamous ‘death zone’.

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Roped team ascending Everest. Photo: Getty Images
Asia travel

High-end tourism: how climbing Mount Everest has changed over 70 years

Climbing Mount Everest has changed in the past 70 years. Expeditions take much less time, there have been thousands of successful ascents, and climbers today experience frequent traffic jams near the summit.

A trekker enjoys the view during the walk to Everest Base Camp. Photo: Getty Images
Nepal

Video | Sherpa saves climber in rare Everest 'death zone' rescue

Malaysia

Nepali Sherpa saves Malaysian climber in rare Everest ‘death zone’ rescue

Gelje Sherpa and another guide hauled the Malaysian man from below the summit – where temperatures can dip below minus 30 Celsius – back to Camp 3.

Nepal

Opinion | Everest challenges mount 70 years after Hillary and Norgay reached the top

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to scale Earth’s highest point, on May 29, 1953. As mountaineering has become more commercial, there are big issues including novices putting lives at risk, overcrowding and environmental degradation.

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Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on their climb to the top of Everest in May 1953. What might the men think of the overcrowding on the mountain now? Photo: Alfred Gregory, Royal Geographic Society
Singapore

‘Despite best efforts’ crews can’t find missing Singapore man on Everest: wife

In an Instagram post, the wife of Shrinivas Sainis Dattatraya wrote a tribute to the 39-year-old climber who went missing after reaching the summit on May 19.

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The search and rescue team looking for the missing Singaporean climber on Mount Everest were unable to locate him “despite their best efforts”, said his wife on social media on Saturday. Photo: Instagram/sushmasaurus
Climbing and mountaineering

Hongkonger questions if highs and lows of conquering Everest was all worth it

Vivian Ying Cai wowed by the beauty of being on top of the world, but questions the amount of help it took to get there.

Nepal

Video | Gurkha veteran is first double amputee to climb Mount Everest

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