Everest faces pressure from climate change and overcrowding
Nepal says it must protect Mount Everest as rising climber numbers and climate change put pressure on the world’s highest peak.
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6 days ago
The queue at the top of the world: Dozens of climbers wait for their turn to reach the top of Mount Everest in human traffic jam
Photographs taken from the snowy mountain showed adventurers in their orange protective gear forming a snaking queue to the peak on May 18.
Chinese paraglider survives accidental 8,000-metre-high flight above the clouds
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A strong updraft propelled Peng Yujiang thousands of metres high, in line with flight paths and nearly as high as Mount Everest
A Chinese paraglider who was accidentally propelled more than 8,000 metr…
8 days ago
Peak speed: Sherpas say their traditions are at risk after record Everest ascents
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Use of xenon gas and hypoxic tents before recent expeditions has triggered alarm in Nepal, where guides fear it could encourage inexperienced climbers
There is nothing unusual about records being brok…
Nepali breaks world record with 31st summit of Mount Everest
Kami Rita, a 55-year-old Sherpa known as “Everest Man”, first climbed the world’s highest mountain in 1994.
12 days ago
British MP makes history as he scales Everest just five days after leaving London using gas to help acclimatise for ascent that usually takes two months
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A British minister has climbed to the summit of Mount Everest in just five days, thanks to a special gas that dramatically cut his prep time and allowed him to make a record-breaking ascent.
13 days ago
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn audiobook review – a life-changing journey
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Facing homelessness and incurable illness, a couple sets out on a 630-mile hike in this lyrical memoir read by the author
A few days after Raynor Winn and her husband, Moth, had their Welsh farm repos…
23 days ago
She was the first woman to climb to the roof of the world...but three months later the mountains claimed her life
As the lone figure approached the summit of Mount Everest buffeted by winds zipping around its dizzyingly steep and treacherous slopes, the sense of achievement was palpable.
24 days ago
Former Royal Marine from 'the flattest part of the UK' completes the world's longest triathlon and scales Mount Everest - eight months after leaving Dover
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Mitch Hutchcraft, 31, swam the Channel and cycled 12,000km from France to India where he then ran Kathmandu, all before taking on the tallest mountain on Earth while raising money for charity.
38 days ago
Inside the tragic death of Sophia Bush's Google exec ex on Everest aged just 33 that left actress 'shattered'
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Sophia Bush's world was 'shattered' in 2015 when her Google executive ex and 'best friend' died in an Mount Everest avalanche aged just 33.