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Climbing Season on Mount Everest Closes With Fewer Fatalities, Dangerous Winds, and Rapid Ascents
Our Everest reporter explains the biggest stories from the 2025 season: fewer fatalities than in 2024, a narrow weather ...
Climbing Mount Everest may get even harder
A new proposal from Nepal aims to tighten requirements and improve climber safety on the world's tallest peak, but such ...
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Everest Season Wraps Up: FKT and Wingsuit Attempts, Xenon, Helicopter Rescues, 100s of Summits
Yesterday's Everest Day celebrations in Kathmandu marked the official closure of the 2025 season. Here's what this season ...
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Mount Everest is still growing. It's because of the rivers
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Mount Everest is Earth's tallest mountain — towering 5.5 miles above sea level — and is actually still growing. While it and the rest of the Himalayas are continuing an ...
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Scientists explain Mount Everest's anomalous growth
A tourist looking at a view of Mount Everest from the hills of Syangboche in Nepal in 2009. (File photo: Reuters/Gopal Chitrakar) In this case, the merger of the rivers - more like a hostile ...
Nepal’s mountaineering community celebrates 72nd anniversary of Mount Everest conquest
Nepal’s mountaineering community has celebrated the 72nd anniversary of the conquest of the world’s highest peak.
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Why Mount Everest Is Growing Taller Every Year
By Robin George Andrews Mount Everest is many things ... then turns abruptly and cuts through a ridge near Everest. That suggests the upper and lower segments of the river were not always unified ...