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British climbers first to scale Mount Everest using new method - Their climb is one of the fastest ascents on record of the world’s highest peak ...
Siffredi held the record for the first uninterrupted snowboard descent from Mount Everest, but the allure of boarding the ...
New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. The two were part of the ...
The adventure and mountaineering industry has turned into "a complete circus which is too expensive", according to the first ...
In May 1975, Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei became the first woman to climb Mount Everest. It's an extraordinary tale of ...
A new proposal from Nepal aims to tighten requirements and improve climber safety on the world's tallest peak, but such ...
We take a look at when the best time to climb Everest is, why it is that the climbing window is so short and why summer and winter ascents are so rare ...
Jermaine Middleton is currently climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, and next year, he’ll be the first American-born black man to reach the summit of Mount Everest ... what normal people might consider ...
At least 345 people have died on world’s highest mountain since summiting expeditions started over 100 years ago ...
Lumping his 31 feats together, Kami Rita Sherpa has climbed nearly 90,000 feet above sea level on the famous peak — about 170 ...
The use of xenon gas may help cut the usual trip time from weeks to days. But not all members of the climbing community ...
Nepal’s mountaineering community has celebrated the 72nd anniversary of the conquest of the world’s highest peak.