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Nepal's Cabinet will hold a meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the threat from global warming, which is causing glaciers to melt in the Himalayas, an official said Monday.
Chinese scientists have begun operating an earthquake monitoring station at the foot of Mount Everest in a bid to learn more about the world's highest peak, an official said Monday.
Three skydivers claim to have made the highest parachute landing ever at a drop zone high in the Himalayas of Nepal, officials said Wednesday.
A Sherpa from Nepal who holds the world's record for scaling Mount Everest said Monday the planet's highest peak was littered with trash and warned that its glaciers were melting because of global warming.
An amateur Chinese mountain climber died of altitude sickness early Tuesday while descending Mount Everest on the Chinese side just hours after reaching the summit, state media reported.
Three Sherpa brothers hoping to set a new record by spending 24 hours at the top of the world set out Sunday for the summit of Mount Everest.
A Sherpa guide who holds the record for most climbs up Mount Everest set off Monday on a new expedition to scale the world's highest mountain for a 19th time.
China's border police have significantly beefed up their presence at the base of Mount Everest amid rising visitor numbers and increasing cases of theft, prostitution and gambling, state media reported Tuesday.
With the debris of more than 50 years of climbing — oxygen canisters, tents, backpacks and even some bodies — Mount Everest has been called the world's highest garbage dump.
An American climber has scaled Mount Everest for the 10th time, becoming the first non-Nepalese to achieve the feat, mountaineering officials said Wednesday.
Nepal allowed the climbing season on Mount Everest to resume Friday after blocking access to hundreds of climbers so a Chinese team carrying the Olympic flame could ascend without the threat of protests.
Nepal has imposed a near-blackout on communications on its side of Mount Everest, trekking company officials said Tuesday, hours after the government acknowledged it had deported an American mountaineer caught at base camp with a "Free Tibet" banner.
Nepal has deported an American mountaineer found on Mount Everest with a "Free Tibet" banner and has banned him from all climbing activities in the country for two years, officials said Tuesday.
An American mountain climber with a "Free Tibet" banner was forced to turn back from Mount Everest, which Chinese climbers carrying the Olympic torch plan to summit next month, officials said Wednesday.
China's new plan for press coverage of the Olympic torch's ascent of Mount Everest has touched off a new controversy.
A blacktop road leading to the Mount Everest base camp was completed Wednesday and will be used when the Olympic torch is taken to the peak of the world's tallest mountain, a state news agency reported.
Political turmoil in Tibet has forced a 75-year-old Japanese adventurer to change the route of his bid next month to become the oldest man to scale Mount Everest, his office said Monday.
Two years ago, Yuichiro Miura lost his title of oldest man to climb Mount Everest to someone just three days older. Now, the 75-year-old wants it back.
Climbers are being told by Nepalese officials that Mount Everest's summit will be put off-limits to the public from all sides during the first 10 days of May, so the Chinese can carry an Olympic torch to the summit without risking a high-altitude confrontation over Tibet's future.
China has asked Nepal to keep climbers off Mount Everest this spring, a move that would prevent pro-Tibetan protests when the Olympic torch is carried to the summit of the world's highest mountain, Nepalese officials said Friday.
China's largest cell phone service provider successfully tested a transmission station on Mount Everest on Tuesday, making it possible for people in the area for next year's Olympic torch relay to make calls, a state news agency reported.
Climbers over age 60 are three times more likely to die on Mount Everest than the average mountaineer, according to study results released Wednesday, as more older people try scaling the world's highest peak.
China plans to build a highway on the side of Mount Everest to ease the Olympic torch's journey to the peak of the world's tallest mountain before the 2008 Beijing Games, state media reported Tuesday.
A Canadian woman credited with helping to save an ailing fellow climber on Mount Everest was honored Monday by Nepal's mountaineering community.
A Japanese mountaineer and his team have brought 1,100 pounds of garbage down from Mount Everest in his latest campaign to clean the world's highest mountain.
'The best picture on Earth!' Everest revealed from mile above in balloonist's breathtaking panoramic shot of world's highest peaksThe summit of Everest, the world's highest peak at 29,035ft, takes centre stage above the 11,000ft vertical drop of the Kangshung Face, on the eastern side of the mountain.
Did George Mallory and Sandy Irvine Summit Mount Everest in 1924? New Evidence Lends Credence to Theory That Mallory May Have Beat Sir Edmund Hillary, After AllEverest News, an organization that relies heavily on actual climbers in the Himalayas, and is used by same, presents a well-constructed theory (with pictures) on why they believe George Mallory DID make it to the top of Mt Everest in 1924.
Set to scale Mt Everest SINGAPORE'S first women's team to tackle Mount Everest have their sights set firmly on the challenge.
The doctor who dropped his trousers on top of the world That's how Daniel Martin measured his blood oxygen level – and found a more effective treatment for his patients
Sir Edmund Hillary pizza advert outrages Everest hero's familyA pizza chain's macabre advertisement depicting the skeletal remains of Sir Edmund Hillary dancing in a graveyard has outraged the family of the Everest conqueror.
The New Apostolics' Spiritual Warfare against Catholics and the Amish (or Rick Santorum's Close Call) Palin's Churches and the Third Wave Series"Our assignment from God was to take down the foundations of The Great Babylon, the harlot over many waters, who supported the false systems of the world.
Banned for keeps on Facebook for odd nameUser gets dumped by Facebook
Turning Everest's Trash Into Art | Interview with an eco-artistTo climb Everest is to climb to the moon. At 29,028 feet (8,848 meters), the summit of the world's highest point is no less inhospitable than outer space.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Nine climbers feared dead on K2At least nine climbers are feared to have died in north Pakistan trying to scale the world's second-highest peak, K2, expedition organisers say. There are fears more climbers could have been killed or still be trapped, after an avalanche, but others did manage to reach safety.
Tibetan Woman Holds Olympic Flame Atop Everest, Tibetans Cry FoulEVEREST BASE CAMP, China (Reuters) - A Tibetan woman took the Olympic torch the last steps to the top of Everest on Thursday, realizing "a dream of all Chinese people", but Tibetan exiles criticized Beijing for politicizing the Games.
Olympic torch bearers braced for final Everest assaultChinese climbers carrying the Olympic torch were camped just over a km (half a mile) from the summit of Mount Everest on Wednesday and weather conditions look good for the final assault, officials said.
NEPAL, Namche Bazaar - Hampered in their efforts by an early onset of the south Asian Monsoon, the Chinese Olympic Torch is still stuck on the Tibetan side of Mount Everest, delayed by bad weather, according to reports from the Tibetan side.
NEPAL, Namche Bazaar - After banning journalists from reporting on the Chinese Olympic Torch relay to the summit of Mount Everest from the Nepalese side of the border, the Nepalese authorities have now also banned trekkers from visiting the popular Everest Base Camp, situated on …
Pro-Tibet US climber deported.imposed a two-year ban, prohibiting him from climbing any mountain in NepalHimalayan News Service Kathmandu, April 28: The government today deported American climber William Brant Holland who violated strict regulations banning pro-Tibet protests on Mount Everest and imposed a two-year ban, prohibiting him from climbing any mountain in Nepal.
Nepal: Everest pro-Tibet protesters may be shotKATHMANDU, Nepal (CNN) -- Nepal has given its security personnel permission to shoot pro-Tibet demonstrators during China's Olympic flame climb to Mount Everest's summit early next month.
Blind teens climbing Himalayan peakErik Weihenmayer, the first blind man to reach the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest and climb the seven summits of the world, took on a different challenge in 2004: He guided six blind Tibetan teenagers toward the 23,000-foot summit of Lhakpa Ri, the peak next to Everest.
Explorer Fiennes to make 2nd Everest bidBritish explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes says he will make a second attempt to climb Everest, three years after he nearly died just short of the summit.
Climbers banned from Everest as China seeks to stop protests on summitThe plans of several international expeditions and dozens of climbers, including some from Britain, to scale the world's highest peak in May and June have been thrown into chaos by China in effect closing the mountain on both sides.
China Shuts Down Mt. Everest, Cites "Environmental Pressures"In an effort to crack down on any potential disturbances ahead of the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government has just issued a notice announcing its decision to shut down the north face of Mount Everest until May 10.
Real-life 'Iceman' Baffles DoctorsIt's an ability he discovered in himself as a young man 20 years ago.
(Sir Edmond) Hillary Is DeadHillary, who was born in Auckland on July 20, 1919, died of a heart attack aged 88 at Auckland hospital at 9am today. He was in good spirits until he died this morning, Lady June Hillary said in a message to the nation.
Sir Edmund Hillary, first to climb Mount Everest, dies at 88Hillary didn't place himself among top mountaineers. "I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm and I'm good on ice," he said.
Edmund Hillary, first atop Everest, dies - Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century's greatest adventurers, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday. He was 88.
Sir Edmund Hillary dies aged 88Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest, has died aged 88.
'Yeti prints' found near EverestA US TV presenter says he and his team have found a series of footprints in the Everest region of Nepal resembling descriptions of the mysterious Yeti.
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