The 2024 Mount Everest climbing season was delayed due to crumbling ice in the Khumbu Icefall. The Khumbu Icefall is one of the most dangerous obstacles to cross on the path to Everest's summit. As ...

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 of eight Sherpa climbers and a small camp staff left Namche Bazaar ...

NEW DELHI – On Everest, everybody knows the Khumbu Icefall is dangerous. They’ve known it for generations – since the first great Everest mountaineer, George Mallory, turned away from the Icefall in ...

The treacherous Khumbu Icefall has opened on Mount Everest. The highest mountain in the world stands 29,029 feet. Located in the Himalayas on the Nepal-Tibet border, the iconic peak’s names – ...

The spring climbing season will begin in the next several weeks in the Himalayas – including teams headed to Mount Everest. The highest mountain in the world stands 29,029 feet. Located in the ...

Image (from 2008): Scott Parazynski using a fixed laddder to cross a constantly shifting crevasse on the Khumbu Icefall. These ladders are put in place by expert Sherpa “Ice Doctors” and are ...

Rescuers searched on foot and by air in a helicopter but were not expected to be found, according to a local report Three Sherpa climbers disappeared into a deep crevasse on Mt. Everest Wednesday. The ...

Climber Lakpa T. Sherpa filmed the massive slide and uploaded video to his Instagram page on Wednesday afternoon. An official with the Himalayan Rescue Association named Lakpa Norbu Sherpa told The ...

Image: I took this photo moments after the avalanche began. The speed and ferocity of this avalanche was terrifying. Keith Cowing: There was a massive avalanche off of the west shoulder of Mt. Everest ...

Andrzej Bargiel's sponsor, Red Bull, has posted a 31-minute video of the Polish mountaineer's ski descent of Everest some weeks ago. The new footage details every section, including the last slow ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — On Everest, everybody knows that the Khumbu Icefall is dangerous. They’ve known it for generations, since the first great Everest mountaineer, George Mallory, turned away from the ...