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The man who skied down Everest

The man who skied down Everest

Interview with Andrzej Bargiel who became the first to ski down Mt Everest without oxygen

The Everest Industry

The Everest Industry

Despite government efforts to spread out expeditions, the world’s highest mountain was the main draw in Spring 2025

Peak season in the Nepal Himalaya

Peak season in the Nepal Himalaya

Everest expeditions cope with a narrow weather window as pre-monsoon storms lash the mountains

Go Gokyo

Go Gokyo

Khumbu in winter during COP28 shows how much Himalayan ice is gone

Nepal can’t keep up with trash building up on Everest

Nepal can’t keep up with trash building up on Everest

A ban on littering at source is the only way to clean up the world's highest peaks

“If the ice is gone, we are done”

“If the ice is gone, we are done”

Climate change has been melting the ice even high on Mt Everest, exposing rock and making it more difficult to climb. Photo: DAMIEN FRANÇOIS /…

1921 Rendezvous:  Mallory, Pumori and Everest

1921 Rendezvous: Mallory, Pumori and Everest

Pumori's imposing 7,161m-high pyramid of ice and rock as seen by Mallory in 1921 from the West Rongbuk Glacier as he explored a route to climb…

Trekking in Nepal is open for business

Trekking in Nepal is open for business

All photos courtesy of PEMBA NORBU SHERPATill two years ago, Pemba Norbu Sherpa was a happy-go-lucky trekking guide from Phakding on the Everest…

Mt Everest grows by 86cm

Mt Everest grows by 86cm

Past the South Summit of Everest and climbing the Cornice Traverse with the Hillary Step in the background. Photo: KARMA TENZINGThe height of Mt…

Aussie paraglider to jump off Everest

Aussie paraglider to jump off Everest

ken Hutt launches off from 7,200m on Cho Oyu in 2014. All photos: KATIE RIVERSApproaching 62 years old, and after retiring from a police rescue…

More stranded tourists evacuated from Nepal

More stranded tourists evacuated from Nepal

HIMALAYAN AIRLIFT: A Qatar Airways Airbus330 takes off from Kathmandu on Saturday with European tourists stranded after Nepal’s COVID-19…

The Climate Smart Great Himalayan Trek

The Climate Smart Great Himalayan Trek

It has been eight years since a group of hikers and a dog walked across Nepal to promote tourism and highlight the climate crisis

Mt Everest is melting : Are you moved?

Mt Everest is melting : Are you moved?

In the coming decade, climate migration may finally make world leaders take action to slow global heating

Everest fights back

Everest fights back

(against garbage and bad press)

Everest Postmortem

Everest Postmortem

Illustration: SUBHAS RAIEver since the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India determined that the world’s tallest mountain was Peak XV located on…

Most days, it’s not so crowded on Mt Everest

Most days, it’s not so crowded on Mt Everest

Karma Tenzing on the Summit of Mount Everest 8848 meters above sea level. Photo: Jangbu SherpaEven as a photograph of the traffic jam on Mt…

Expedition brings down 11 tons of Mt Everest trash

Expedition brings down 11 tons of Mt Everest trash

All photos: BHARAT BANDHU THAPAAt a time when traffic jam on Mt Everest is grabbing headlines around the world, a clean-up campaign on the…