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Outside Is Headed to Mount Everest this Year. Here Are the Stories We’re Following.
Climbing season is about to start on the world's highest peak, and Outside is headed to Base Camp to report on these and ...
Is This the New Way to Climb Mount Everest?
Austrian guide Lukas Furtenbach will lead a one-week trip to the top of Everest and back this year. Prior to the ascent, he ...
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Experts make worrisome discovery on Mt. Everest climbing paths: 'The probability of that getting worse … increases'
Climbing season on Mount Everest was delayed 12 days this year ... and staked out their route up the mountain. Most of those ...
Column: Aurora native attempting to climb Mount Everest at age 61
For as long as he can remember, former Aurora resident Brian O’Malley has aimed high.
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8K team sets to fix summit routes on Everest, Lhotse this spring
With the start of the spring climbing season ... Ltd. to build summit routes on Mt. Everest and Mt. Lhotse. The equipment was handed over today (Tuesday) during a special ceremony held in Thamel ...
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Drones Will Do Some Schlepping for Sherpas on Mount Everest
When the main climbing ... Mount Everest, expedition companies will test drones that can ferry loads as heavy as 35 pounds in the high altitudes, bring back ladders used to set the climbing routes ...