The Southeast Ridge Everest lottery would need to include guided and unguided teams, and the results for each climbing season should be announced at least 18 months in advance to give everyone ...

Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld were uninterested in repeating Everest’s Southeast Ridge, the route taken on the mountain’s first ascent in 1953 and by Whittaker, their teammate.

Of the 12,015 people who had summited Everest by the end of 2023, only 15 have reached the top in winter. Thirty-four expeditions have tried, including 13 without bottled oxygen. Only five of ...

To mark next month's anniversary of the epic ascent, Peter Hillary and Jamling Norgay return to Everest to retrace their fathers' legendary footsteps. ... 28,000 feet up on the southeast ridge.

“PEOPLE STILL THINK CLIMBING the Southeast Ridge of Everest is an adventure,” says American climber Pete Athans, 45, leader of the Everest 50th Anniversary Expedition, who summited the ...

Everest, Lhotse and Nuptse form a U-shaped massif with Lhotse at the base of the U. Nuptse is opposite Everest, and the climbing route follows Everest’s southeast ridge route up to Camp 2.

For hours she worked to ascend the southeast ridge of Mount Everest by the light of a full moon under a crystal-clear canopy of stars. Tibet shone as if etched in quicksilver thousands of feet below.

For those unfamiliar with the business of Mount Everest, last week’s photo showing hundreds of climbers in a dense line snaking up the mountain’s southeast ridge on their way to the 29,029 ...

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay achieved the first ascent of Everest via the Southeast Ridge in 1953; a large Chinese team made the second ascent via the North Col in 1960.

Kami Rita Sherpa, 53, scaled the mountain early in the morning along the traditional southeast ridge route, guiding a foreign climber. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our ...