But Mount Everest experts pointed to another factor in the diminished loss of life: the use of helicopters to save stricken climbers at Camp III, ... “I turned him around above the South Col.

One factor could be that Everest fees will go up from September: each foreign climber needs to pay a $15,000 royalty, up from the present $11,000. The cost for a Nepali climber on the South Col route ...

The 2025 Mount Everest season will also be remembered for the unsuccessful attempts by two runners—American Tyler Andrews and Swiss-Ecuadorian Karl ... “I turned him around above the South Col.

MAY 29, 1953, 6:00 AM, CAMP IX MT EVEREST, 27,900 FEET. From his cramped two-man tent in the middle of the 'Death Zone,' Hillary stared at the South Summit of Mount Everest.

One day last week, they took a traffic jam to the top of Mount Everest. ... Working up the relatively friendly South Col route were Barry Bishop, 30, a National Geographic photographer, ...

In 2012, she became the first woman to summit two 8,000-meter peaks, Mount Everest and Lhotse, in a single 24-hour push. Six years later, Nelson returned to Lhotse to become the first to ski from ...

A new proposal from Nepal aims to tighten requirements and improve climber safety on the world's tallest peak, but such proposals rarely become law.

On May 8, 1978, world-renowned alpinist Reinhold Messner and his frequent partner, Peter Habeler, became the first to summit ...

Eva Steinwald recently conquered Mount Everest's 29,000-foot summit, becoming one of the oldest Americans to stand atop the ...

Mount Everest suffers traffic jams as climbers battle harsh weather - with beginners not helping. Hundreds of climbers and their Sherpa guides have scaled the famous Nepalese mountain this month ...

Ten Indian climbers are among over 100 mountaineers honored in Nepal on Tuesday to commemorate the first successful ascent of Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.