A Nepali Sherpa guide fell into a crevasse and died on Mount Everest for the third death in two weeks on the world’s highest ...
American climber Shelley Johannesen died in an avalanche on Mount Makalu, officials said Tuesday, as fatalities mount early ...
Hundreds of climbers are attempting to scale Mt. Everest despite an unstable ice block, high travel costs and increased ...
Hundreds of climbers are attempting to scale Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, despite an unstable ice block ...
Early in the morning on May 10, a Nepali high-altitude worker named Bijaya Ghimire died while climbing through the Khumbu Icefall at the foot of Mount Everest. Officials do not know of a cause of ...
New Zealand Olympic kayak racer Max Brown credits growing up in Whanganui as a major contributor to his sporting success. The ...
A massive and unstable block of glacier ice has disrupted the main climbing route to Mount Everest from Base Camp in Nepal. Serac, a towering 100-foot-high chunk of ice, is preventing teams from ...
I recently met Norwegian climber Kristin Harila in the empty restaurant of Kathmandu’s Aloft Hotel, which is the bustling epicenter of the Mount Everest climbing scene. In 2022, I watched Harila enter ...
Jim Whittaker stands atop Mount Everest on May 1, 1963, holding an American flag and ice axe after becoming the first American to reach the 29,032-foot summit. He and Sherpa Nawang Gombu spent roughly ...
SEATTLE — Jim Whittaker, who in 1963 became the first American to reach the top of Mount Everest, has died. He was 97. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...
Runner and mountaineer Ty Andrews is attempting to set the speed record for climbing Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. Andrews, a Concord native, has transitioned from competitive running to ...
Jubilee Party Deputy Leader Fred Matiang’I and other leaders during the official opening of the party Rift Valley regional and Nakuru County offices in Section 58, Nakuru City, on February 10, 2026.