Our Everest reporter explains the biggest stories from the 2025 season: fewer fatalities than in 2024, a narrow weather ...

Subrata Ghosh, 45, from India, died on Thursday below the Hillary Step while returning after reaching the 8,849 metre (29,032 feet) peak.

At 6 A.M. on May 21, Nepali climbing guide Vinayak Jaya Malla gazed from the summit of Mount Everest for the ... The infamous Hillary Step—a 40-foot vertical rock that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing ...

The climbing season on Mount Everest peaks in late May and early June every year. Extreme weather patterns at this location ...

so the Hillary Step as we once knew it no longer exists and has in large parts been replaced by a steep snow-covered slope. Intensely steep and complex, the North Face of Everest was first climbed ...

Kathmandu: An Indian mountaineer, Subrata Ghosh, died on Mount Everest on Thursday below the Hillary Step when he was after reaching the 8,849 metre peak. Notably, Ghosh has become the second ...

Renewed attention is being paid to the crowded conditions on Mount Everest ... hundreds of climbers jammed side by side along the Hillary Step. Mountaineering guide Vinayak Jaya Malla witnessed ...

close to Hillary Step, a nearly vertical rock face just beneath the summit. Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. Three climbers are missing, following five deaths already on the ...

The spring climbing season has come to an end on Mt. Everest. The annual phenomenon of the Jet Stream moving several hundred miles north of the Himalayas, which ...

Correction: August 31, 2023 — An earlier version of this story misstated the location of the Hillary Step on Mount Everest and the proximity of the city of Skardu to K2. The Hillary Step is on ...

Nepal’s mountaineering community has celebrated the 72nd anniversary of the conquest of the world’s highest peak.