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Who are the Everest sherpas and what do they do? We look at the often unsung heroes behind some of the world's most famous mountaineers
People who live in the Nepalese mountains have been guiding foreign climbers up the world's tallest mountain since the 1920s.
She escaped an avalanche and became the first woman to summit Everest. Today, few remember her name
Japanese climber Junko Tabei was part of an-woman team climbing Mount Everest. Despite almost being crushed in an avalanche, ...
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Mount Everest in detail: Get up close and personal with the world’s highest mountain
Everest is a huge, complex mountain of rock walls, ice and long ridges. The mountain itself straddles the border between ...
CT student becomes youngest American woman to climb Everest, world's tallest mountains: 'The time of my life'
Fast forward to May 15, when Schwerin became the youngest American woman to summit Mount Everest at age 17. At the top of the ...
They want to climb Everest in a week using an anesthetic gas. Critics warn it’s dangerous
Four ex-military friends are planning to summit Everest without the usual lengthy acclimitization period, relying on ...
British soldiers make Everest history using new method
Four British former special forces soldiers have set a record by climbing Mount Everest in under five days without ...
Four men court controversy with audacious plan to scale Everest in one week
The use of xenon gas may help cut the usual trip time from weeks to days. But not all members of the climbing community ...
High Winds Threaten Everest Xenon Climbers' Ambitious Deadline
The four men aiming to climb Everest in a week will reach Camp 4 today, just four days after leaving home. But will the jet stream foil their plans?
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She escaped an avalanche and became the first woman to summit Everest. Today, few remember her name
In the words of mountaineering historian Walt Unsworth, climbing Everest “is the story of Man’s attempts to climb a very special mountain.” This has had real-world consequences for ...