I would give anything to be able to climb with him,” Robert Alt, the president and CEO of The Buckeye Institute, said.

Once again, many climbers came to Mt. Everest’s south side this year to attempt the iconic mountain. Nepal’s Department of Tourism granted 468 permits to foreigners this year (86 women and 382 ...

Also Read How Mount Everest was mapped . For supplementary oxygen, around 125 cylinders were ferried to South Col, with about a hundred available for the summit attempts.

Rabe ascended via the South Col route on the Nepal side of the mountain Ric Rabe became the latest Filipino to reach the summit of Mt. Everest on Thursday. Facebook/Ric Rabe Filipino mountaineer ...

Two climbers, from India and the Philippines, died on Mount Everest this week, ... Philipp II Santiago, also 45, from the Philippines, died late Wednesday at the South Col while making his ascent.

Philipp II Santiago, 45, from the Philippines, died late on Wednesday at the South Col while he was on his way up, said Himal Gautam, a tourism department official.

Lakpa Sherpa, Expedition Leader and Managing Director at 8K Expeditions, told THT from the Everest base camp that the team led by Ashok Lama opened a climbing route up to 7,900m at around 4:30pm ...

Conquering Mount Everest will cost climbers an extra $4,000 ... The new $15,000 fee will apply for the popular April-May climbing season along the standard South East Ridge, or South Col route.

A permit to climb the 8,849 meter (29,032 feet) Mount Everest will cost $15,000, said Narayan Prasad Regmi, director general of the Department of Tourism, announcing a 36% rise in the $11,000 fee ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade, officials ...