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China’s new India envoy urges ‘right track’ in ties amid talk of Xi-Modi meeting
South China Morning Post· 2 days agoCiting satellite images taken on Monday, Indian broadcaster NDTV reported that China had deployed...
Rising Waters Transform the Tibetan Plateau Into an Unpredictable Future
SciTechDaily· 7 days agoIncreased rainfall and glacier meltwater are set to dramatically reverse the shrinking trend and...
Kenyan climber's body to be left on Everest - family
BBC via Yahoo News· 4 days ago“But we have also told the government that those bodies that have fallen into crevasses or, say, have fallen towards Tibet (Everest runs along the border...
Remembering Tenzing Norgay, the unsung trailblazer of Mount Everest
NextShark via Yahoo News· 5 days agoNepalese Indian mountaineer Tenzing Norgay played an equally crucial role in the first successful...
George Mallory’s Final Dash up Mount Everest: 100 Years of Mystery and Myth
Mentalfloss· 3 days agoJust before noon on May 1, 1999, Conrad Anker was standing about 2300 feet from the top of the world...
Made it! California climbers use pioneering techniques to summit Mt. Everest
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 days agoGraham Cooper and Adrian Ballinger, California mountaineers whose training for Mt. Everest included...
Everest tours offer expeditions for plus-sized climbers as crowds grow
Newsweek· 3 days agoFor Katie McCay, climbing to Mount Everest's base camp was always a dream. "I have been obsessed...
I (virtually) conquered Everest – this is what it was like
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoMy route to the roof of the world began in the App Store. Rather than filling in the paperwork to...
China fortifies disputed border against key US partner
Newsweek· 6 days agoChina is expanding a network of dual-use villages and military facilities near its disputed border...
Opinion | Peak insanity? Another deadly pre-monsoon climbing season on Everest
South China Morning Post· 5 days agoOn May 21, Pastenji Sherpa, 23, and Briton Daniel Paterson, 40, fell to their deaths near the...