Climbing season is about to start on the world's highest peak, and Outside is headed to Base Camp to report on these and ...

Outside will be stationed in Nepal’s Mount Everest Base Camp for the 2025 spring climbing season. Here is your destination for all the news from the Himalayas. New perk: Easily find new routes and ...

Everest, the world's highest peak. The Expedition Operators Association of Nepal (EOAN) today handed over ropes and necessary assignments to 8K Expeditions Pvt. Ltd. to build summit routes on Mt.

Their knowledge of the mountain's routes and weather patterns ... as they have been instrumental in the success of many summit attempts. Climbing Mount Everest is fraught with peril, and many ...

Barry Bishop returned from a historic Mount Everest expedition with his ... Bishop was on the first U.S. expedition to summit Everest. (See the story from the October 1963 issue of National ...

In 1997, I had the privilege of chaperoning the late Sir Edmund Hillary during his visit to support our Malaysia Everest 1997 ... last November on the summit of Mount Batur in Bali.

Pastemba Sherpa, a Mount Everest guide, breaks down every piece of gear Sherpa guides use to summit the world's tallest mountain. All of this equipment needs to be carried up and back, so guides ...

A particularly difficult undertaking is the crossing of the Khumbu Icefall, southwest of the Mount Everest summit ... to retrieve ladders for setting up routes and to carry away waste left ...

When the main climbing season begins next month on Mount ... routes, and remove waste that is typically left behind. Goods that would normally take seven hours to be transported by foot from ...