Everest South Col Animated Route Map by Alan Arnette on YouTube. If the Hillary Step has indeed collapsed, the rockfall will have altered the standard route to the top. And this may result in ...

Most teams are now settled into Everest Base Camp on the South Side. Meanwhile, on the North Side in Tibet, everything is ready, and international teams will start climbing within a few days ...

Mount Everest’s overcrowded South Col route is where it belongs: on AllTrails. It is “generally considered a very challenging route.” ...

Climbing Mt. Everest is an undeniably ambitious achievement. If this is an undertaking you wish to accomplish, here is our guide to help you prepare.

The route to the summit of Mt. Everest (29,029 feet), the tallest mountain in the world, has just arrived at Camp 4 (7,900m/ 25,920 feet). This camp, also known as High Camp and the South Col ...

The first recorded summit of Everest was in 1953 along the South Col route by Nepalese Tenzing Norgay and New Zealander Edmund Hillary, ...

The central route isn’t really new — it has been used by mountaineers climbing Everest’s south face since 1953, according to National Geographic.But the path was changed in favor of the more ...

This is the first rock a climber touches on the route up Everest. It becomes very obvious when one has reached this point in the climb—one's crampons hit hard rock. The top of the yellow band is ...

The route begins from Gorakshep (5,140m), the last camp for meals on the existing route before South Base Camp, ascending an old trail toward Sundar Peak (5,880m), a path last used decades ago ...

Every spring, climbers trudge to the summit of Mount Everest along two different routes.. On the peak’s southern flank, several hundred ascend the popular Southeast Ridge route, which takes in ...

South Side Story by Audrey Salkeld In 1950, western mountaineers approached Everest through Nepal, rather than Tibet, and saw for the first time the formidable Khumbu Icefall which constitutes the ...