everest

Each January we post a farewell tribute to those members of our community lost in the year just past. Some of the people you may have heard of, some not. All are part of our community and contributed to climbing.

A Himalayan expedition ends in ruin, but leads the author to follow the footsteps of Shipton in a quest to find a real-life monster.

When mountaineer Nirmal “Nims” Purja climbed K2 this year, he and other climbers stumbled onto rancid food, tattered tents, and piles of human waste.

The world’s highest mountain is a sought-after prize, though rampant commercialization has significantly changed the climbing experience.

Nepali officials have denied a summit certificate to Russian mountaineer Katya Lipka, who flew a Ukrainian flag atop the world’s tallest peak

"I ran, ice axe gripped in one hand above my head, stretching for the other side, but . . . horror . . . the edge collapsed and I was falling."

Ph.D., biophysical chemist, author, executive director of Green Science Policy Institute.

The American mountaineer is among the most famous all-around climbers in the world and a prominent activist.

Dozens of expeditions took advantage of favorable weather to reach the world’s highest point on Thursday.

Seven climbers from the Full Circle Everest team reached the peak on Thursday.

A Russian climber and a Nepali guide were involved in separate tragedies during a busy weekend in the Himalayas

By the time of his and Sir Edmund Hillary's successful Everest climb, Norgay had been to the mountain six times and was a prolific high-altitude climber, earning numerous prestigious awards.

Krakauer’s nonfiction works, such as Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, are among the world’s most widely-read pieces of outdoor literature.

Despite the war at least one Russian team plans to climb Everest.

Mountaineer Irina Galay wants Russian climbers blocked from the high peaks

Ennis is a very strategic climber, who "runs hot" due to her amputation, yet must avoid any situation of waiting lest she incur frostbite due to cold transfer from the materials in her prosthetic, and lose any more of her femur.

Full Circle, the first all-Black expedition to Mount Everest, is slated for Spring 2022. Its members consist of 10 Americans and one… Kenyan. How did he get there?  

Two climbers want to be the youngest to summit the 14 peaks.

He faced tragedy, but persevered and has important words of wisdom for all of us.

Messner was the first to climb Everest without oxygen. He has established upwards of 500 rock routes, made extreme desert crossings, polar expeditions and has written over 50 books. This is his ecstatic wisdom of a life spent on the edge.

Climbers cashing in on an oxygen-assisted climb are profiting from the deaths of those who attempted it without. So what's fair?

Physician Brian Irwin reports on the dangerous situation that continues to brew at Everest Base Camp in Nepal. “This is a major scandal and a scam,” Everest guide and operator Lukas Furtenbach said.

On May 10, 1996, an unexpected storm engulfed the summit of Mt. Everest, killing eight climbers. At the time, it was the deadliest disaster in the mountain's history. Twenty-five years later, scientists and the mountaineering community are still taking steps toward safer expeditions. But with the climate crisis taking its own toll on the mountain, climbing the world's highest peak may become more dangerous than ever.

Check out Michael Levy's author page.

Check out Michael Levy's author page.

Check out Michael Levy's author page.

Despite the official party line from the Nepal government, Covid appears to be tearing through Everest Base Camp.

Longtime Everest chronicler Alan Arnette looks at how much it actually costs to climb Mount Everest, whether you do it on a "shoestring" budget or book the swankiest expedition out there. From the costs of travel to food to supplies to guides, it's all broken down here!

One man's quest to learn the fate of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine's 1924 summit bid. Could they have been the first men on top of the world?

Your uncle Paul, who does some high-paying job for a mid-level government contractor, has just returned from his expedition to summit Everest, the ultimate goal for any climber. And he's got a lot to say about it.