Credit to Author: Omkar Khandekar| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 21:36:41 +0000
Due to decades of commercial mountaineering and climate change, the worlds tallest mountain is becoming “the world’s highest garbage dump.”
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As the return of cloud and frozen hurricane-force winds seal off Mount Everest for another year, questions are being asked about how to police the world’s highest peak after the deadliest climbing season in years.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 10:58:10 +0000
Ameesha Chauhan, a survivor of the Everest “traffic jam,” said climbers without basic skills should be barred from climbing the highest peak.
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Read moreCredit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:53:43 +0000
For generations climbing has been firmly the realm of men among the legendary Sherpas of Nepal, tradition dictating women care
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 06:09:37 +0000
TANGKAK — A group of hikers had to wait for more than 16 hours to be rescued after they went off trek and lost their way while climbing Bukit Blading in Malaysia.
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Kathmandu, Nepal — All nine members of a South Korean climbing expedition were confirmed dead Saturday after a violent snowstorm devastated their camp on Nepal’s Mount Gurja, one of the deadliest mountaineering accidents to the Himalayan nation in recent years.
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