カテゴリー: Mountaineering
Officials assessing route after serac between base camp and camp one deemed unstable and too risky for climbers A large ice block on the route just above the Mount Everest base camp has forced hundreds of climbers and local guides to delay their attemp…
From the moment I started climbing the 7,000-metre peaks of the Pamir mountains in Tajikistan, something felt off. What followed will stay with me for everI didn’t have a reason for my terrible feeling of dread – and that was part of the problem. From …
Two others rescued as authorities work to recover the bodies of those killed after they fell near the summitTwo mountain climbers have died on Aoraki, New Zealand’s tallest peak, with two others from the same group rescued, authorities said.The climber…
Bad weather hampering rescue efforts after avalanche that swept through Mount Yalung Ri base camp on MondayAn avalanche has swept through a camp on Mount Yalung Ri in Nepal, killing five foreign climbers and two Nepali guides, officials said.Shailendra…
Kanchha Sherpa was part of expedition that put Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary atop world’s highest peak in 1953Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the mountaineering expedition team that first conquered Mount Everest, has died at the age of…
More than 1,000 people were stuck in mountain hiking areas for days, sparking extensive rescue efforts by local authorities and villagersThe weather wasn’t great. A bit drizzly and cold. But about 1,000 people steeled themselves on Mount Everest’s east…
Hundreds of hikers encountered deep snow in the isolated Karma valley after an unusually powerful blizzardRescuers guided all of the remaining trekkers near the east face of Everest in Tibet to safety, including hundreds of local guides and yak herders…
At least 200 people still stranded after unseasonally heavy snowfall during china’s Golden Week holidayTrekkers have described facing “extreme” conditions after an unseasonable snowstorm during one of China’s busiest holiday weekends stranded hundreds …
Hundreds of trekkers stranded by blizzard on eastern face of mountain in Tibet already guided to safety by rescuersRescue efforts are under way on Mount Everest after a snowstorm trapped nearly 1,000 people in campsites on the eastern side of the mount…
Polish athlete Andrzej Bargiel, 37, is the first person to climb up and ski down Mount Everest without bottled oxygen. It took him four days to ascend from base camp and two days to ski back down Polish climber makes history skiing down Everest without…
Kokichi Akuzawa climbed with 70-year-old daughter to break record for oldest person to make ascent – a second timeKokichi Akuzawa has become the oldest person to climb to the top of Mount Fuji at the age of 102 – despite almost giving up during his tre…
From an exuberant mountaineering woman to a boy representing unheard refugees, here are some of the brave individuals that gave us hopeNine years ago, Cecilia Llusco was one of 11 Indigenous women who made it to the summit of the 6,088 metre-high Huayn…
Search teams suspect two Americans and one Canadian fell while trying to climb 3,724m-high AorakiThree mountain climbers – two from the US and one from Canada – missing for five days on Aoraki, New Zealand’s tallest mountain, are believed to have died …
Nima Rinji Sherpa is youngest person to summit world’s 14 highest peaks at 18 years old. Now he is pushing for recognition of his communityGrowing up as a sherpa in Nepal, Nima Rinji Sherpa was used to his relatives performing superhuman feats on the m…
Foot, boot and sock believed to belong to Sandy Irvine, who disappeared in George Mallory’s 1924 expedition, discovered on glacierThe partial remains of Andrew “Sandy” Irvine are believed to have been found on the slopes of Mount Everest, a century aft…