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Overcrowding Is Inevitable on Mount Everest. Here’s How Climbers Deal With It.
Veteran guides share tips and tricks for avoiding or navigating the gridlock that always arises on the trail to the top ...
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Climbing for two: Singaporean finishes Mount Kinabalu climb for brother killed in 2015 Sabah quake
KOTA KINABALU, May 17 — A decade after tragedy struck on Mount Kinabalu in Sabah, a Singaporean woman has completed a climb in memory of her younger brother. In 2015, a powerful 6.0 magnitude ...
Deaths and Rescues Amid the Summit Push on Mount Everest
On Friday, May 16, word circulated that a climber from India named Subrata Gosh had died on Mount Everest after descending from the summit to the Hillary Step at an elevation of 28,839 feet. Outside ...
Why these climbers’ plan to scale Everest in a week is getting blowback
An experienced Austrian mountaineer named Lukas Furtenbach has shortened Everest trips to weeks with “flash” expeditions that used hypoxic tents. He approached the four men with the idea of cutting ...
Forgotten 7,000'ers: The Elusive Kirat Chuli -- Lots of Failures, Just One Ascent
Our Forgotten 7,000'ers series continues with the climbing history of 7,362m Kirat Chuli, a striking, rarely attempted peak ...
Expedition organizers say 2 climbers have died on Mount Everest
An Indian and a Filipino climber have died while climbing Mount Everest as hundreds more are attempting to scale the world's ...
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Two climbers, from India and Philippines, die on Everest
An Indian climber and another from the Philippines became the first mountaineers to die on Mount Everest in the current March ...
Brit, 21, somehow survives 130ft plunge off Austrian 'stairway to heaven' mountain ladder while taking a photo - two years after UK climber fell 300ft to his death at th…
The man had somehow removed his safety harness to take the photograph of his companions when he slipped and fell, reportedly ...
Tom Cruise recalls doing a major Mission: Impossible stunt with a broken foot: "What's the point? You just keep going"
As Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning heads to cinemas next week, Tom Cruise recently talked about his most impressive ...
Three climbers fell 400 feet to their death. One climber survived and drove to a pay phone
A rock climber who fell an estimated 400 feet while descending a steep gully in Washington’s North Cascades mountains ...
Majority approve Mt. Fuji climbing restrictions, hope tolls used for conservation
About 80% of respondents to a survey of Mount Fuji climbers approved of entry restrictions on the Yoshida Trail implemented ...