Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sherpa team in charge of opening a route through Everest's Khumbu Icefall is about to begin their annual high-risk job. A team ...

Climbing season is here on the world’s highest peak, and there’s already controversy, drama, new technology, and record ...

The Khumbu Icefall—a chaotic tumble of ice blocks, towers, and crevasses between the Western Cwm and Base Camp—is always among the most dangerous obstacles climbers face on Everest. Each year, the ...

Ngima Gyalzen Sherpa, 26, working at the Khumbu Icefall as part of the team of "icefall doctors" opening the route in 2022. Most Mount Everest climbers only achieve their goal because local ...

The Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) has announced the successful completion of route fixing through the Khumbu Icefall, marking the official opening of the 2025 Everest climbing season.

An eight-member team of icefall doctors along with two kitchen staff, a garbage management staff, and a base camp manager, left for Mt Everest base camp from Namche Bazaar today. The team will fix and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NEW DELHI — On Everest, everybody knows that the Khumbu Icefall is dangerous. They’ve known it for generations, since the first great Everest mountaineer, ...

Highly skilled mountaineers known in Nepal as “icefall doctors” have begun fixing ropes and ladders on Mount Everest to ...

Percy Fernandez is the expedition photographer with the Indian NCC Everest 2013 team. Founder of Mountain Adventures, he is an outdoor educator and helps design and implement outdoor learning ...

Percy Fernandez is the expedition photographer with the Indian NCC Everest 2013 team. Founder of Mountain Adventures, he is an outdoor educator and helps design and implement outdoor learning ...