Mount Everest’s Guiding Industry Suffered the First Death of the 2026 Season

A 52-year-old guide and mountain worker died while hiking from Gorak Shep to Base Camp, marking the first 2026 fatality for ...

Sherpas cross icefall, open route for climbers to move up on Everest

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, April 28 (Reuters) - A group of Sherpa climbers have opened the route to Mount Everest that had ...

More than 300 people have died climbing Everest. A retired Sherpa returns to the mountain to bring home a body

About 200 bodies remain on the mountain, frozen in ice and snow. In Everest Dark, famed climber Mingma Tsiri Sherpa leads an ...

Sherpas cross icefall, open route to Camp I on Everest - hiking officials

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, April 28 (Reuters) - A group of Sherpa climbers have opened the route to a camp on Mount Everest ...
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Kanchha Sherpa, last surviving member of pioneering Mount Everest expedition, dies at 92

KATHMANDU, Nepal(AP) — Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the mountaineering expedition team that first conquered Mount Everest, died early Thursday, according to the Nepal Mountaineering ...
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As Mount Everest season opens, climber is 'concerned but confident' about reaching the summit

Until Tuesday, Mount Everest was imperiled because of a huge and unstable ice block that was preventing climbers from making ...

Mount Everest summit route cleared by Sherpas after 2-week blockage

Hundreds of mountaineers from different countries were stranded at the Everest base camp for over two weeks ahead of making ...