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From highs to lows, Everest record breaker sees ‘no future’ in Nepal
CNN Sports via Yahoo Sports· 1 year agoKami Rita Sherpa had stood at the top of the world just days earlier, exultant at having summited...
26 incredible things you probably didn't know about the Himalayas
LoveEXPLORING via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAwe-inspiring peaks Daniel Prudek/Shutterstock Humankind has been enthralled by the Himalayas for...
Everest? All in a day's work for record climber Kami Rita Sherpa
AFP via Yahoo Sports· 3 weeks agoScaling the world's highest peak is all in a day's work for 54-year-old Nepali mountaineer Kami Rita...
Nepal to move Everest base camp from site made ‘unsafe’ by global warming and human activity
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNepal’s Everest base camp will soon be moved from its original position as the famous Himalayan...
Inside the high-stakes, death-defying world of scaling Mt. Everest
NY Post via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIn April, 2013, a group of Sherpas, the iconic Nepalese mountain guides, hung off the side of the...
Mallory’s Last Words: Haunting Letters From Fateful 1924 Everest Expedition Now Online
GEARJUNKIE via Yahoo News· 2 months ago“The candle is burning down now and I must stop.” Those were among the final words of Sir George...
Famed explorer wrote a poignant letter to his wife before dying on Mount Everest
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 2 months agoBritish mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are seen at the base camp in Nepal as they get...
Hong Does ‘Biographie,’ Cobra Crack Sees a Repeat, and 70th Anniversary of Everest FA
Climbing via Yahoo Sports· 1 year agoMatty Hong, 31, has repeated France's Biographie, in Ceuse, the world's first consensus 5.15a. The...
A Deadly Earthquake on Mt. Everest
Backpacker via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen Svati Narula agreed to spend a season as part of a communications team at Mt. Everest basecamp she thought there would be a buffer between hers and...
Beyond Everest, Part II: Gokyo Ri and Renjo La
ExplorersWeb via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoNepal’s Solukhumbu isn’t all crowds and helicopters. Away from the Everest Base Camp trail, it still feels suitably wild. There are alpine mammals,...