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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this May 18, 2003 file photo, mountaineers pass through the treacherous Khumbu Icefall on their way to Mount Everest ...

Anxiety is growing at Everest Base Camp, more than 5,300 meters above sea level. Hundreds of climbers including sherpas have gathered, eager to summit the world’s most famous mountain as the annual ...

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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An unstable ice block dangerously hanging over the key trail on Mount Everest, high travel costs and increased permit fees haven’t deterred hundreds of climbers from attempting ...

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 ...

A massive, unstable chunk of ice, roughly the size of a 10-story building, is blocking the Nepali access route of Mount Everest, stranding hundreds of climbers who are left unsure of when they’ll ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...