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So here's the challenge: be the first person to ever trek to the South Pole, North Pole and top of Mount Everest in one year. It's not so much the "first-ever" label that Eric Larsen is after, but attention for his favorite cause: saving the ice.
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.
A 17-year-old California resident reached the summit of Mount Everest as part of his trek to become the youngest person to scale the tallest peaks on each of the world's seven continents.
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.
The Grand Canyon, Mount Everest and Loch Ness will vie with more than 200 other spectacular places in the next phase of the global competition for the New 7 Wonders of Nature, organizers said Wednesday.
Nepalese investigators probing a plane crash near Mount Everest have blamed the pilots for the accident that killed 18 people, a report said Thursday.
Beijing praised Nepal on Wednesday for banning anti-China protests by Tibetan exiles earlier this year and detaining demonstrators, actions that helped bring the Olympic torch to the top of Mount Everest.
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.
Ask Jane Dougall what it’s like to jump out of an airplane at 29,500 feet with Mount Everest and the vast spread of the Himalayas below you, and she’ll tell you it was incredible, spectacular, thrilling, the experience of a lifetime.
Identification of the badly charred bodies of 14 foreign tourists who died in a plane crash near Mount Everest has been delayed by a shortage of experts and lack of equipment, a Nepalese doctor said Friday.
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.
A granddaughter of Mount Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary has taken up the family cause of helping the Sherpa people of Nepal, New Zealand's domestic news agency reported Monday.
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.
A Chinese man was arrested for saying on the Internet that he planned to grab the Olympic torch during its relay through eastern China, police said Sunday.
The Olympic torch moved to within striking distance of the summit of Mount Everest on Wednesday, with the flame likely to reach the top of the world's tallest mountain in the next several days.
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.
Cheering Chinese stood on their chairs and waved flags as the Olympic torch started its mainland leg Sunday on the tropical island of Hainan — the first stop in what is expected to be a peaceful three-month journey to Beijing.
China has stepped up persecution of Buddhist monks with mass detentions, Tibet activists said Wednesday, as China prepares to take the Olympic torch to the top of Mount Everest.
China's new plan for press coverage of the Olympic torch's ascent of Mount Everest has touched off a new controversy.
Nepalese soldiers and police guarding the slopes of Mount Everest are authorized to shoot to stop any protests during China's Olympic torch run to the summit, an official said Sunday.
China Celebrates 60 Years of Communist RuleChina's leaders marked their nation's 60th anniversary on Thursday with a precision display of military bravado, a fleet of floats representing everything from a giant fish to Mount Everest and, improbably, a female militia unit toting submachine guns and attired in red minis …
'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.
Calgary climber dies after reaching top of Mount EverestA mountain climber from Calgary has died on Mount Everest after making it to the summit without the use of bottled oxygen.
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.
British climber Rob Gauntlett, who died in Chamonix: tributes paidTributes have been paid to the youngest Briton to scale Mount Everest, Rob Gauntlett, and his friend, James Atkinson, who have died in a tragic accident in the French Alps.
Mystery Alpine death of British adventurerThe youngest British climber to conquer Everest died in a tragic fall in the French Alps yesterday. Rob Gauntlett, who was just 19 when he climbed Everest two years ago, died with a fellow Briton who has not yet been named.
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Nepal removes ban on mountaineering expeditions to Mount Everest Nepal government has removed the ban on mountaineering expeditions after successful relay of the Olympic torch at Mount Everest . After Chinese Governments request the Nepalese Cabinet had banned climbing Everest beyond Camp II on April 2 to ensure safe passage for the torch. C …
Olympic torch reaches Everest summitThe Olympic torch has reached the summit of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, Chinese media reported Wednesday.
Good weather for climbing Mt. QomolangmaThe recent heavy snowfall on Mount Qomolangma, which lasted about two nights and one day, stopped during the wee hours of Sunday morning, May 4, 2008, allowing for better weather for mountaineering.
Olympic torch begins uncertain journey from Beijing President Hu Jintao on Monday waved the Olympic torch at a ceremony at Tiananmen Square, smiling broadly as balloons, streamers and confetti rolled across a mostly blue sky.
Tibet officials vow tight security for Games torch China will impose strict security on the Olympic Games torch relay through restive Tibet to Mount Everest, as the government seeks to prevent any protests upsetting the symbolic display of national unity.
Last week the nation of Nepal bent over for China by caving to a request to shut down all points on Mt. Everest higher than base camp between now and the middle of May.
Unrest in Tibet threatens bid to become oldest Everest climber Yuichiro Miura has recovered from heart operations and has tested his ageing limbs to the limit; now the biggest obstacle to the 75-year-old's bid to become the oldest person to scale Mount Everest is political rather than physical. Speaking to reporters as he left for Nepal to …
High Crimes: the fate of Everest in an age of greed, by Michael Kodas | Book ReviewNothing makes you appreciate your mundane existence more than a good Everest disaster narrative. Yes, your life may be boring, but at least you're not alone on the highest peak in the world suffering from hypoxia, cerebral edema, or simply freezing to death.
Sir Edmund Hillary, a Pioneering Conquerer of Everest, Dies at 88Sir Edmund Hillary, was the mountaineer who, with Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, was the first to scale the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest.
Ex-army man's poles speed record - Three Poles ChallengeA former British army officer from the New Forest has become the fastest man to complete the Three Poles Challenge. Adrian Hayes, 45, reached the South Pole on Saturday after having climbed Mount Everest and walked to the North pole - all in just 19 months.
Three Filipinas Conquer Mount EverestThree Filipina mountain climbers made history Wednesday be becoming the first ASEAN women to conquer the world's highest peak, Mt. Everest.
Footprints seen around Mt.Everest stoke Yeti mysteryA U.S.-based television channel investigating the existence of the legendary Yeti in Nepal has found footprints similar to those said to be that of the abominable snowman, the company said on Friday.
On the top of the Mount Everest [PIC]Mount Everest is so famous for being so high that you've probably heard of it before.
Anti-cancer group holds concert on Everest slopesKATHMANDU (Reuters) - A U.S. based anti-cancer group said international musicians had staged the world's highest rock concert on the icy slopes of Mount Everest to raise awareness about the disease.
Daredevil Tackles Mountain RaceDAREDEVIL Ulric Jessop risks life and limb soaring over the snowtipped Alps in one of the toughest races on Earth.
Everest faces 'no nude mountaineering' rule Attention climbers: Please keep your clothes on while climbing Mount Everest. Nepal's spoilsport mountaineering authorities are calling for a ban on nudity and attempts to set 'obscene records' on the world's highest mountain, officials said on Wednesday.
Medical tests on top of EverestA team of doctors and nurses has just returned from climbing Mount Everest where they carried out extensive research at altitude designed to improve the treatments of patients in intensive care.
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