Mount Everest Avalanche

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  3 Nepali Sherpas Missing After Avalanche In Mount Everest

  Three Nepalese Sherpa guides went missing on Wednesday after they fell into a deep crevasse on the most dangerous section of Mt. Everest amidst an avalanche, in the season's first accident at the world's tallest peak.

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  Fraud At 8,848 Metres: Are Mount Everest Ascents Too Easy To Fake?

  For a Mount Everest summit, climbers have to provide the Nepali or Chinese authorities with a photo from the top and a report from the team leaders and government liaison officers stationed at base camp.

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  Arunachal's Anshu Jamsenpa Sets Sights On Unclimbed Peaks After Mount Everest Record

  Anshu Jamsenpa, a 38-year-old Indian climber who made the fastest double ascent of Mount Everest and became the first woman to reach the highest point on earth twice in five days, says she will now turn her attention to smaller unclimbed peaks.

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  Four Climbers Found Dead At Camp On Mount Everest

  It was not clear how the climbers died at the camp on Mount Everest and their identities have not been identified yet. Ten climbers have died on Mount Everest, including one on the Chinese side, during this climbing season, which ends this month.

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  Earthquake-Triggered Avalanche Kills Nepalese Guide Scaling Everest

  A 43-year-old Nepalese guide died and a British climber was injured on Monday when an earthquake triggered an avalanche on the Himalayan peak they were climbing, an expedition operator said.

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  Cracks And Holes Develop In Mount Everest After Deadly Nepal Earthquake

  Several cracks and holes have developed in the Mount Everest region due to last year's devastating earthquakes that killed about 9,000 people across Nepal, according to a specialist team responsible for maintaining the climbing route on the world's highest peak.

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  Mount Everest Base Camp in Tibet to Reopen

  The Mount Everest base camp in Tibet will be reopened to climbers on July 1, the tourism authorities said today.

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  Nepal Earthquake has Made Mount Everest Shorter, Suggests Satellite Data

  The devastating earthquake that has rocked Nepal not only killed thousands but may have also shrunk the height of the world's tallest peak - Mount Everest - by about 2.5 cm, according to analysis of satellite data.

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  Mount Everest Not Officially Closed to Climbers: Officials

  Mount Everest remains open to climbers, a senior official at Nepal's tourism department said today, despite avalanches after last month's devastating earthquake destroying much of the established route to the summit of the world's highest peak.

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  Earthquake-Devastated Nepal Toll to Climb 'Much Higher'

  The death toll from an earthquake that ripped through Nepal will climb "much higher", the government warned Sunday, as relief teams raced to reach survivors of the disaster that has already claimed more than 7,000 lives.

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  Climbing to Resume on Mount Everest by Next Week: Official

  Climbing will resume on Mount Everest by next week despite an earthquake-triggered avalanche that left 18 people dead on the world's highest peak, a Nepalese government official said today.

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  Indians in Australia Mourn Death of Mountaineer Renu Fotedar

  The Indian community today mourned the death of avid mountaineer Renu Fotedar, who became the first Australian killed on Mount Everest in the avalanche triggered by the devastating 7.9-magnitude earthquake in Nepal.

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  All Climbers Stranded at Camps High Up Everest Airlifted to Safety

  All of the climbers who had been stranded at camps high up Mount Everest by a huge earthquake and avalanches have been helicoptered to safety, mountaineers reported from base camp on Tuesday.

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  After Earthquake and Avalanche, Mount Everest Climber Not Yet Ready to Quit

  Climber Nick Cienski has not given up on his world record bid to scale six 8,000-metre peaks this calendar year, despite narrowly escaping a huge avalanche on Mount Everest set off by an earthquake that killed thousands of people in Nepal.

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  Nepal Earthquake: Choppers Rescue Climbers Stranded at High Altitude on Mount Everest

  Climbers stranded for two days were plucked Monday from high altitudes on Mount Everest following a deadly quake-triggered avalanche, as exhausted and emotional mountaineers said they were thankful to be alive.