カテゴリー: Mountaineering
Austrian expedition leader Lukas Furtenbach says the real number could be 200, despite official Nepali denialsSee all our coronavirus coverageA coronavirus outbreak on Mount Everest has infected at least 100 climbers and support staff, a mountaineering…
Decision to allow expeditions to go ahead dealt blow after outbreak on world’s seventh highest mountainCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNepal’s decision to allow people to continue to climb its Himalayan peaks as a vicious Co…
Nepal authorities accused of underplaying seriousness of situation as daily cases soarCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe coronavirus outbreak at Everest base camp in Nepal, controversially opened to climbers despite the pan…
Witnesses claim mountaineers appeared not to have sufficient oxygen to make ascent Three Indian climbers accused of falsely claiming to have summited Mount Everest in 2016 have been banned by Nepal from mountaineering in the country for six years.The a…
Three-day rescue effort has so far failed to locate Ali Sadpara and two fellow mountaineersMuhammad Ali Sadpara, Pakistan’s most successful mountaineer and a national hero in his country, was acutely aware of the risks of climbing the world’s highest m…
Ali Sadpara of Pakistan, John Snorri of Iceland, and Juan Pablo Mohr of Chile lost contact with base campAn aerial search was under way on Sunday to find three experienced climbers who lost contact with base camp during a winter ascent of K2, the world…
Mountaineer was climbing near K2 in northern PakistanAuthorities are now working to bring body down mountainA Russian-American climber who went missing last week while trying to scale a mountain amid harsh winter weather in northern Pakistan has been f…
Team of Sherpas reaches top of Pakistan peak – becoming first to summit world’s second highest mountain in winterA team of Sherpas has accomplished one of the most coveted achievements in mountaineering: the first winter ascent of K2, the world’s secon…
Countries have settled on 8,848.86m – higher than either’s previous measurementsMount Everest is marginally higher than previously thought, according to a new joint Chinese-Nepali calculation that settles a long-running conflict over the height of the …
First Englishman to climb Everest who dedicated his later years to Buddhism and helping the people of NepalDoug Scott, who has died aged 79 from cancer, was the first Englishman to climb Everest, but it was what happened afterwards that made him famous…
Ang Rita made his ascents without the use of oxygen and was known in Nepal as the ‘snow leopard’ for his climbing skillsAng Rita Sherpa, the first person to climb Mount Everest 10 times, has died after a long illness, his family has said, in what fello…
More than half a century ago, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to summit Everest. Now a collection of rare photos from Hillary’s life is up for auction in New Zealand, featuring scenes of the climbers tackling the world’s tallest …
A year on from the loss of 11 people on the world’s highest mountain, survivors talk about what went wrong and whyNirmal Purja is someone who responds to a crisis by becoming completely calm. When the Nepalese mountaineer saw the line of about 100 peop…
My mother, Monica Jackson, who has died aged 99, was a mountaineer whose passion for the peaks was nurtured by her childhood in India and her adulthood in Scotland. Among her most notable feats was her participation, in the 1950s, in the first all-fema…
The mountain’s closure is devastating for many in a Himalayan nation that relies heavily on trekkers and climbersCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe tiny airport at Lukla, perched on the edge of a mountain high in Nepal’s Hi…