Spring is go time for climbers who hope to summit Mount Everest ... before they attempt to summit Everest, is covered with garbage and frozen, wind-swept feces. National parks in developed ...

This story appears in the November 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine ... ice that spills 2,000 feet down a gorge between Mount Everest’s west shoulder and Nuptse, the 25,791-foot ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Mount Everest is littered with an estimated 50 metric tons of waste, and each climber generates an average of 8 kilograms more. The Nepalese government spends $7.5 ...

National Geographic has the ... attempting to climb Everest in 1924. Kenyan mountaineer Joshua Cheruiyot Kirui, who went missing on Wednesday morning on Mount Everest, has been found dead ...

But environmental activists are using the occasion to call attention to the tons and tons of garbage — and human excrement — that have been left on Mt. Everest's slopes in the decades since ...

according to a Sherpa who led a team that worked to clear trash and dig up dead bodies frozen for years near Mount Everest’s peak. The Nepal government-funded team of soldiers and Sherpas ...

Mount Everest ... ban for national security concerns. The company delivered its first drone to Everest in April for a test run. A single drone was able to carry 500 pounds of garbage an hour ...

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Rob Gauntlett, the youngest Briton to summit Mount ... Everest expedition. But it was Hooper and Gauntlett's 396-day pole-to-pole odyssey in 2008 that National Geographic ...

More than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest ... mountaineering mysteries of all time. National Geographic reported on Oct. 11 that Everest explorers had found the suspected ...

Mount Everest got a smidge ... a 1954 measurement from the Survey of India as Everest's official height: About 29,029 feet. In 1999, National Geographic's surveyors used GPS technology to ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Barry Bishop returned from a historic Mount Everest expedition with his reindeer-hide boots, Vibram-soled hiking boots ...

At 8,430 meters above sea level, the high-altitude expedition team celebrates after setting up the world's highest operating automated weather station during the National Geographic and Rolex ...