Mount everest News

A tourism ministry official in Nepal, Krishna Lamsal, reports an avalanche early Friday morning on Mount Everest has killed at least 12 Nepalese guides. Another 3 guides, also called 'sherpas', are missing and believed to have died in the avalanche.

It will be 61 years in May since the first successful attempt at reaching the summit of Mt. Everest was made. Since that time, 3,500 people have succeeded in duplicating the feat of Sir Edmund Hillary and his Nepalese Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay.

Kathmandu - Marc Kopp, a multiple sclerosis (MS) sufferer from France, has officially become the first disabled person to skydive over Mount Everest on Sunday. He landed successfully and was taken to hospital for a check up, just as a precaution.

Kathmandu - 55-year-old Marc Kopp, a sufferer of multiple sclerosis, is not letting the disease get him down. He is planning to become the first disabled person to tandem skydive over Mount Everest.

As the world celebrates the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund HIllary's ascent to the top of Mt Everest, environmentalists are complaining about the disgusting mess up there, including loads of human excrement and even the odd corpse.

Kathmandu - A Nepalese expedition company whose client died after reaching the summit of Mount Everest in 2012, said installing a ladder near the mountain's peak may prevent the conditions that led to one of the deadliest days on the roof of the world.

In honor of the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's first ascent, the video shows a Russian extreme sports star performing the world's highest BASE jump, off the north face of Everest.

Kathmandu - A Saudi Arabian woman, Raha Muharrak, 25, was among 64 people who reached the summit of Mount Everest Saturday, having climbed from Nepal's side of the mountain. Muharraq is the first woman from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to reach the summit.

Researchers announced at the Meeting of the Americas in Cancun, Mexico, May 14, that snow and ice on Mount Everest and the neighboring area was melting at an increasing rate. According to the study, global warming is affecting the Everest environment

Eli Reimer, 15, with Down Syndrome reached the Nepal base camp of Mt. Everest earlier this month. Eli of Bend, Oregon, may be the first US teen with Down syndrome to climb to one of the base camps on the world’s highest mountain.

A mountaineer and film-maker has created the most detailed image of Mount Everest ever. Working with Microsoft and the Royal Geographic Society, David Breashears has created a 3.8-billion-pixel photographic reproduction of the world's tallest mountain.

Nine mountain climbers are believed to have died and six more climbers are missing in Nepal after an avalanche occurred on a Himalayan peak. The avalanche struck a base camp near the summit.

A 73-year-old Japanese woman beat her own world record for a second time when she reached the peak of the world's highest mountain on Saturday morning making her the world's oldest woman to conquer Mt. Everest.

A Japanese woman recently broke the world record for being the world's oldest woman to climb Mount Everest. This is not her first record-breaker, she had set the record on a previous climb in 2002.

At least 19 passengers and crew of a small tourist plane were reported killed as the aircraft they were boarding crashes while on sight seeing tour in Nepal

Kathmandu - For decades, the Nepalese government has continued to state that Mount Everest stands at 29,028 feet (8,448 meters), but Chinese officials and Western climbers say they have a slightly different measurement.

Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak, will be cleaned up, thanks to the efforts of twenty Nepali climbers involved with Extreme Everest Expedition 2010. The team is setting off this week to remove decades-old garbage from the mountain.

Big Bear Lake - Jordan Romero, a 13 year-old from Big Bear Lake, California has his sights on the summit of Mount Everest, in an attempt at becoming the youngest person to conquer the 29,035-foot mountain.

On Friday, January 11, Sir Edmund Hillary has passed away. He was the beekeeper that was the first person to climb atop and conquer Mouth Everest had passed away. Hillary carries the legacy of one of the great adventurers of the 20th century.

A 71 year old retired schoolteacher from Japan is the oldest to scale Mount Everest. Katsusuke Yanagisawa reached the top of the oldest highest mountain on May 22.

Two South Korean climbers were killed trying to scale Mount Everest.