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In the Death Zone
Confronting the true danger on top of the world's tallest mountain. By Gabriel Filippi and Brett Popplewell.
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China Wants to Build Hotels on Everest
A plan for a drive-up climbing center on the North side of the mountain also includes the mainstays of a modern resort: lodging, restaurants, and a museum. Is this the future of the world’s highest peak? By Grayson Schaffer.
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Death in the clouds: The problem with Everest’s 200+ bodies
No one knows exactly how many bodies remain on Mount Everest today, but there are certainly more than 200. Climbers and Sherpas lie tucked into crevasses, buried under avalanche snow and exposed on catchment basin slopes – their limbs sun-bleached and distorted. Most are concealed from view, but some are familiar fixtures on the route to Everest’s summit. Perhaps most well-known of all are the remains of Tsewang Paljor, a young Indian climber who lost his life in the infamous 1996 blizzard.
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Nepal wants to limit age for Everest after 85-year-old dies
Family and supporters on Sunday honored an 85-year-old Nepali man who died trying to regain his title as the oldest person to climb Mount Everest, while officials stressed the need to limit the age for such a daunting physical challenge. The death of Min Bahadur Sherchan has revived...
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Scaling the World’s Most Lethal Mountain, in the Dead of Winter
The mountain rises glistening from an encasement of glaciers in the far reaches of the Karakoram. Pyramid-shaped, an austere link to eternity, K2 yields only to Everest in height and is deadlier. Its walls are vertiginous no matter the approach. Only the most experienced climbers attempt ascents, and for every four who crawl to its peak, one dies.
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Mount Everest's famous Hillary Step destroyed, mountaineers confirm
A famous feature of Mount Everest has collapsed, potentially making the world's highest peak even more dangerous to climbers. Mountaineers said the Hillary Step may have fallen victim to Nepal's devastating 2015 earthquake. The near-vertical 12m (39ft) rocky outcrop stood on the mountain's southeast ridge, and was the last great challenge before the top.
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Risky retrieval of Everest bodies raises climbers’ concern
There is a heated debate in the mountaineering community about the morality of risking more lives to retrieve bodies from one of the most unforgiving places on Earth.
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Zillertal Alps accident kills five German climbers in Austria
Five German climbers were killed and another climber was seriously injured after an accident in the Austrian Alps. Five rescue helicopters were sent to the scene, 2,900m (9.500ft) above sea level in the Zillertal Alps. The climbers were roped together when one of them slipped, pulling the rest of the group with him, police said.
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Little-known drug keeps climbers’ minds sharp at high altitude
An obscure drug, oxiracetam, seems to boost the brain's blood supply and reduce cognitive deficits caused by altitude, according to a study at 4000 metres
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Nepal bans Mount Everest solo climbers
Nepal has banned solo climbers from scaling its mountains, including Mount Everest, in an attempt to reduce accidents. The new safety regulations also prohibit double amputee and blind climbers from attempting to reach the summit of the world's highest peak. A tourism official said the law had been revised to make mountaineering safer and to decrease deaths.
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How Tall Is Mount Everest? For Nepal, It’s a Touchy Question.
Gauging the mountain’s precise height is not so simple, and for Nepal, the measurement can involve notions of national pride, in addition to questions of science.
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Everest clean-up campaign begins
A clean-up campaign has begun at Mount Everest, aiming to airlift 100 tonnes of rubbish left behind by tourists and climbers of the world's highest mountain. On its first day, 1,200kg (2,600lbs) of waste was flown from Lukla airport to Kathmandu for recycling. Mountaineers are required to bring back whatever waste they generate on their climb.
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A 69-Year-Old Double Amputee Has Climbed Mount Everest
A 69 year-old double amputee reached the summit of Mount Everest from the Nepal side on Monday morning, on his fifth attempt to climb the world’s highest peak. Chinese national Xia Boyu reached the summit at 8:26 am Nepal time, according to a post by his son Cloud Xia on the Chinese messaging platform WeChat. “My Dad reached Everest at 8:26 Nepal time!!! Has realized his 40 years dream!!!” Cloud Xia wrote.
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Everest is becoming a conveyor belt of hikers who pay $25,000 to do the climb — these images reveal what the trek really looks like
Everest climbing season is here. In May, when the mountains in Nepal and Tibet warm, the temperature at base camp on Mount Everest heats up to a daily high of about 25 degrees Fahrenheit, and the winds around the world's tallest peak become still.
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Man dies on Mount Everest during ASKfm cryptocurrency promotional stunt
It was a stunt designed to play on one of cryptocurrencies most resilient memes: "to the moon" -- the idea that prices will skyrocket, leaving currency holders rich in the process. But it was a stunt that left one Sherpa presumed dead on Mount Everest. ASKfm, one of the world's top 10 social media networks, was about to release a brand new Initial Coin Offering (ICO), giving early investors the chance to pre-buy some of its cryptocurrency before its launch. To promote the ICO ASKfm sent four "crypto enthusiasts" on an expedition to Mount Everest.
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Mount Everest, the high-altitude rubbish dump
Decades of commercial mountaineering have turned Mount Everest into the world's highest rubbish dump as an increasing number of big-spending climbers pay little attention to the ugly footprint they leave behind. Fluorescent tents, discarded climbing equipment, empty gas canisters and even human excrement litter the well-trodden route to the summit of the 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) peak.
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The Last Days of Marc-André Leclerc
He was the best alpinist of his generation, a quiet, unassuming Canadian known for bold ascents of some of the world’s most iconic peaks. Four months ago, at the age of 25, he traveled to Alaska to join climber Ryan Johnson for a first ascent outside Juneau. They never came back, and a frantic nine-day search left more questions than answers.
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Nepal cracks down on lucrative helicopter rescue scams
Climbers forced to abandon ascents at first sign of illness to be flown to private hospitals.
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Storm kills climbers on Nepal mountain
At least seven climbers died when a violent snowstorm destroyed their camp on a Himalayan peak in western Nepal. A five-member South Korean expedition team and four Nepali guides were at the base camp of Mount Gurja when the storm struck, police said on Saturday. The crew of a rescue helicopter confirmed seeing seven bodies in the ruins of the camp, but was unable to stay due to bad weather conditions.
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How Much Trash Is on Mount Everest?
Mount Everest has a mountain of a problem: human waste. And not just leftover camping meals, beer and fuel cans, but human poo, too. So, how much poopy and other garbage calls the planet's highest mountain home? A Tech Times story describes the mountain as "the world's highest garbage dump." But Alton Byers, a mountain geologist at the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado Boulder...
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