a mountaineer coach who summited Everest in 2014. “What most teams do out of respect for that climber, they will move the body out of sight,” he said. And that’s only if they can.

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Could this be the body of Irvine, who fell from the spot where his ice axe was found? Lying at 27,000 feet, this last piece of evidence has brought a team of mountaineers to Everest to climb to ...

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

Climbing season is about to start on the world's highest peak, and Outside is headed to Base Camp to report on these and ...

The number of climbing permits for Mount Everest have already surpassed 120 in the first week of April-twice as fast as last year-indicating the potential for another record-breaking season on the ...

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Independent climbers hoping to summit Nepal's 8,000m peaks without supplementary oxygen or Sherpa support can relax. They're still allowed to try. Outfitters have confirmed to ExplorersWeb that new ...

A simulated climb of Everest carried out in a low-pressure chamber ... Another area of ignorance is whether the body produces lactate—a normal byproduct of exercise—under these conditions ...

IT takes most mountaineers at least 70 days to scale the world’s highest peak, as even the fittest athletes have to acclimatise their bodies to the deadly thin air on Mount Everest.  But ...