On closer inspection, they found a sock with "a red label that has A.C. IRVINE stitched into it," the magazine reported. British mountaineers George Mallory is seen with Andrew Irvine at the base camp in Nepal, both members of the Mount Everest expeditions 1922 and 1924, as they get ...
RESCUERS found the bodies of four climbers on Mount Everest, an expedition organizer said yesterday, taking the season’s death toll to 10 as experts warn cut-price mountaineering outfits are putting clients at risk. The climbers were found inside a tent at camp four — at 7,950 meters — ...
Since the first summit of Everest in 1953 more than 300 people—most of them locals - have died attempting to scale Everest and Lhotse, which share the same route until diverting at Camp 3 at 7,200 metres. An American climber died Sunday on his way to the summit of Mount Everest, exped...
KATHMANDU, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Famous Swiss climber Ueli Steck, popularly known as "Swiss Machine," died on Sunday as he fell to the foot of Mount Nuptse, Nepalese officials and expedition organizing company said. It is the first death in this spring season in the Qomolangma region, accor...
Trash Mountain: Abandoned tents add to detritus on Everest A lone climber yesterday sparked a search and rescue operation after he found himself stuck on a ridge on the north-east side of Ben Nevis. Cragfast climber assisted on ridge; MOUNTAINS It is every climber's dream to reach the summi...
Another account of locating preserved human remains on the mountain came from the 1975 Chinese Mount Everest expedition when mountaineer Wang Hongbao informed his fellow climbers that he had stumbled upon the remains of a body that he labeled as an old “English dead.” ...
2025, President Donald Trumpsigned an executive orderto rename Alaska’s 20,310-foot Denali, the highest peak in North America. The mountain’s name will revert to Mount McKinley, named for William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, who was assassinated on September 14, 1901...
The 11th person to die on a crowded Mount Everest this climbing season was a Colorado lawyer who had just achieved his dream of reaching the top of the highest peak on each continent. Christopher John Kulish, 62, was just descending from the summit when he died; the cause was un...