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Scaling Everest is always dangerous, but expedition organisers have warned that a combination of extreme weather, corner-cutting on safety, and inexperienced and “impatient” foreign...
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Seventy years ago, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepali Tenzing Norgay Sherpa became the first humans to summit Everest on May 29, 1953. The...
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When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa first climbed Everest 70 years ago, they paved the way for thousands of foreign climbers to try...
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Nepali climber Kami Rita Sherpa reached the top of Mount Everest for the 27th time on Wednesday, reclaiming the record for the most summits...
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Nine Nepalis reached the summit of Mount Everest on Saturday, opening the route for hundreds of climbers expected to scale the world’s highest mountain...
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A US climber has died on Mount Everest, his expedition organiser said Tuesday, the first foreign death on the highest mountain in the world...
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A Mexican mountaineer has spent 32 days living at 5,636 meters (18,491 feet) above sea level on North America’s tallest volcano, known as the...
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Gurkha veteran Hari Budha Magar grew up in the shadow of the Himalayas, but only after losing his legs did he resolve to make...
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A sudden gale drowns out the crunching sound of footsteps on the ice and makes skirts billow in the freezing night. Ten indigenous Aymara...
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Norwegian climber Kristin Harila has just three mountains left in her bid to climb the world's 14 "super peaks" in record time.