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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...