カテゴリー: Mountaineering
British climber Fay Manners, who was stuck for three days, says: ‘There was a big, big, long sense of silence between us’A British mountaineer and her American companion who were stranded in the Himalayas for three days without food have described the …
Fay Manners and Michelle Dvorak had been climbing Chaukhamba mountain when they issued an SOS on ThursdayA British mountaineer and her American companion who had been stranded in the Himalayas for three days without food have been rescued.Fay Manners, …
Documentary expertly follows the only woman to have climbed the mountain 10 times through spectacular scenery and a traumatic personal lifeThis portrait of title subject Lhakpa Sherpa, the only woman to have summited Mount Everest 10 times, is so dense…
Authorities are now mandating that climbers remove their waste from the mountain using biodegradable bagsIt’s one of the more unedifying challenges involved in scaling to the highest point on Earth – how best to relieve oneself in the freezing, inhospi…
Kanchha Sherpa, 91, says more respect should be shown to sacred peak that has been climbed thousands of times since 1953 ascentThe only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition that first reached the summit of Mount Everest has said the world’…
Phuntsho Tshering is Bhutan’s glacier specialist and the only person authorised to climb the Himalayan country’s sacred mountains. He spends months away from home measuring the rapidly melting glaciers, while faithfully recording videos on his phone fo…
Phuntsho Tshering is Bhutan’s glacier specialist and the only person authorised to climb the Himalayan country’s sacred mountains. He spends months away from home measuring the rapidly melting glaciers, while faithfully recording videos on his phone fo…
Experts warn that global heating is exacerbating inherent dangers of high altitude mountaineeringAvalanches in the Himalayas are causing an increasing number of deaths and threatening the safety of climbers, research suggests.While high-altitude mounta…
Kristin Harila rejects allegations of neglect based on drone footage of climbers walking over prone man during record ascentA mountaineer has described the efforts her team made in vain to save a fellow climber, after pictures appeared to show them ste…
Fellow climbers say video footage shows Kristin Harila’s team walking over body of frostbitten porter during record ascentA record-breaking mountaineer has denied allegations that her team climbed over a dying sherpa to reach the summit of K2 in Pakist…
Kristin Harila completes ascents of highest mountains amid controversy over modern climbers’ use of helicoptersA Norwegian woman claims to have completed the fastest ascent of all of the world’s 14 highest mountains, completing the round in three month…
Gelje Sherpa was guiding Chinese client to summit when he saw Malaysian climber clinging to ropeA Malaysian climber narrowly survived after a Nepali sherpa guide hauled him down from below the summit of Mount Everest in a very rare high-altitude rescue…
Nepal’s head of tourism says variable weather on the mountain has led to one of the deadliest years on recordExperts say this is likely to be one of the deadliest years on record on Mount Everest, with variable weather caused by climate change being bl…
Carlos Soria forced to abandon ascent of Nepal’s Dhaulagiri, one of two 8,000-metre summits he is still to conquerAn 84-year-old Spanish mountaineer has been forced to abandon his 15th attempt to reach the summit of Nepal’s Dhaulagiri – one of the two …
‘Strong climber’ Kami Rita Sherpa beats own record for number of ascents on world’s highest mountainA Nepali sherpa has scaled Mount Everest for a record 27th time, beating his own record, a government official and his hiking company said.Kami Rita She…