Climbing season is about to start on the world's highest peak, and Outside is headed to Base Camp to report on these and ...

Austrian guide Lukas Furtenbach will lead a one-week trip to the top of Everest and back this year. Prior to the ascent, he ...

Over 120 climbers have already secured permits to attempt to summit the world's highest peak – twice as many as at this time ...

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Department Director Liladhar Awasthi said permits were issued for expeditions to 29 peaks, including Everest. These include ...

Mt. Everest may get smart solar-powered traffic lights and advisory signs, all linked to the number of climbers and weather ...

For as long as he can remember, former Aurora resident Brian O’Malley has aimed high.

When the main climbing season begins next month on Mount Everest ... is responsible for fixing the route through the deadly Khumbu Icefall, southwest of Everest’s summit. For about a year ...

and use of equipment such as ladders and fixed ropes along the route. Unsupported climbing of Mount Everest comes with great risk, and just a few people have successfully soloed it. Poland’s ...