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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Britons become first to scale Mount Everest with the help of Xenon gas, organiser says
Four British climbers became the first to scale Mount Everest on Wednesday using Xenon gas, which helped them save several ...
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 ...
Everest: Waves of Climbers Move Up From Base Camp
High winds on Everest's upper slopes make it too early to summit, but it's not too early for climbers to position themselves ...
Nurse tackles Everest but challenge continues
A nurse has scaled Mount Everest and plans to tackle more mountains to showcase how tough the profession is. Rowena Rowberry, ...
A new company is changing how people summit Everest — by making climbers inhale xenon
Rather than taking weeks or months, climbers are trying to summit Everest in just 7 days by inhaling xenon gas. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Dr. Peter Hackett, a pioneer in altitude research.