China will limit the number of visitors to Everest
6 years, 2 months ago

China will limit the number of visitors to Everest

Daily Mail  

China will cut the number of climbers attempting to scale Mount Everest from the north by a third this year as part of plans for a major clean-up on the world's highest peak. Scroll down for video China will cut the number of climbers attempting to scale Mount Everest from the north by a third this year as part of plans for a major clean-up on the world's highest peak. The clean-up efforts will include the recovery of the bodies of climbers who died at more than 26,246ft up the mountain Mount Everest has become the world's highest rubbish dump with increasing numbers of big-spending climbers turning it into a 'disgusting eyesore', experts claim. As the number of climbers on the mountain has soared - at least 600 people have scaled the world's highest peak so far this year alone - the problem has worsened.

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Climbing Mount Everest becomes more expensive in new bid to tackle overtourism
2 months, 1 week ago

Climbing Mount Everest becomes more expensive in new bid to tackle overtourism

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nepal is set to increase the cost of climbing Mount Everest, marking the first price hike …

Nepal: Everest Spring climbing season begins, China reopens Tibetan route as record number of climbers expected
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Nepal: Everest Spring climbing season begins, China reopens Tibetan route as record number of climbers expected

Hindustan Times  

Ten Nepali climbers reached the top of Mount Everest late Friday from its southern approach, opening the route for hundreds of summit hopefuls. Nepal: Everest Spring climbing season begins, China reopens Tibetan route as record number of climbers expected Every year, the first summit of Everest is by a team from one of Nepal's expedition organising companies, who prepare the …

Everest climbers will have to take their poop away with them, as Nepal tries to address growing waste problem
1 year ago

Everest climbers will have to take their poop away with them, as Nepal tries to address growing waste problem

CNN  

Those hoping to climb Everest this year will have to make some slight adjustments to their packing list, as new rules now mandate that climbers bring their excrement down with them from the world’s highest peak, in a bid to tackle pollution. Mountaineers' tents at Camp 2 of Everest on May 8, 2021 Pemba Dorje Sherpa/AFP/Getty Images With gear, food, …

How the climb up Mount Everest has changed in 70 years
1 year, 9 months ago

How the climb up Mount Everest has changed in 70 years

The Hindu  

It is June 2, 1953. The other headline comes from 7,331 kilometres away, with an equally splendid silhouette of the world’s highest peak: “Everest is Conquered: Hillary and Tenzing reach the summit”. On May 29, New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepal’s Tenzing Norgay Sherpa made their historic ascent of Mount Everest, reaching the peak at 29,032 feet. Sir Edmund …

Mount Everest conquest 70th anniversary: Rising climate concerns pose threat to world's highest mountain
1 year, 10 months ago

Mount Everest conquest 70th anniversary: Rising climate concerns pose threat to world's highest mountain

India TV News  

As the highest peak in the world celebrates its 70th anniversary there is growing concern about global warming which on the world’s tallest mountain. “The effects of climate change are hitting not just the fishes of Antarctica, the whales or the penguins, but it’s having a direct impact on the Himalayan mountains and the people there,” said Ang Tshering, a …

Nepal issues record 454 Mount Everest climbing permits
1 year, 11 months ago

Nepal issues record 454 Mount Everest climbing permits

Al Jazeera  

More than 900 climbers to head up the world’s highest peak four years after at least four deaths were blamed on overcrowding. Nepal has issued a record 454 permits to climb Mount Everest this spring, officials say, four years after at least four deaths on the world’s highest peak were blamed on overcrowding. “This is the highest number of permits …

The height of endeavor
3 years, 3 months ago

The height of endeavor

China Daily  

On May 14, 2018, Chinese double amputee climber Xia Boyu reached the world's highest summit from the south side in Nepal, at the age of 69. Climber, 69, conquers the world's tallest peak with artificial legs having lost them to frostbite on a previous attempt, Xu Lin reports. He is the first Chinese double amputee climber to conquer the mountain. …

The height of endeavor
3 years, 3 months ago

The height of endeavor

China Daily  

On May 14, 2018, Chinese double amputee climber Xia Boyu reached the world's highest summit from the south side in Nepal, at the age of 69. Climber, 69, conquers the world's tallest peak with artificial legs having lost them to frostbite on a previous attempt, Xu Lin reports. He is the first Chinese double amputee climber to conquer the mountain. …

An Everest season like no other in Nepal amid a deadly pandemic
3 years, 9 months ago

An Everest season like no other in Nepal amid a deadly pandemic

Al Jazeera  

Lakpa Sherpa has climbed Everest seven times. The warmer spring weather usually signals safer conditions for scaling Everest and other Himalayan peaks, but this year it coincided with a deadly second wave of virus infections engulfing Nepal, reports of more than 9,000 daily cases in May. Yet authorities in Nepal have not acknowledged a single case on the mountain, with …

Queueing at top of the world: Climbers are scaling Everest in record numbers despite Covid outbreaks
3 years, 9 months ago

Queueing at top of the world: Climbers are scaling Everest in record numbers despite Covid outbreaks

Daily Mail  

Climbers have been scaling Mount Everest in record numbers this spring, forming queues to the summit amid a surge in coronavirus cases and fears they are spreading a new Nepalese strain across the globe. Mount Everest has issued a record number of permits, worth around £3 million, after last year's peak season was ruined by coronavirus Dozens of climbers are …

First Blind Asian to Scale Mount Everest Wants to Climb the Highest Peaks of Every Continent
3 years, 9 months ago

First Blind Asian to Scale Mount Everest Wants to Climb the Highest Peaks of Every Continent

News 18  

A Chinese climber who became the first blind Asian to scale Mount Everest says he aims to climb the highest peaks on all seven continents and then travel to the North and South Poles. Zhang Hong, 44, is also the third blind climber internationally to reach the world’s highest peak. Personally, I plan to try the grand slam in the …

China cancels Everest climbs over fears of virus from Nepal
3 years, 10 months ago

China cancels Everest climbs over fears of virus from Nepal

Associated Press  

BEIJING — China has canceled attempts to climb Mount Everest from its side of the world’s highest peak because of fears of importing COVID-19 cases from neighboring Nepal, state media reported. China earlier said it would set up a separation line at the peak and prohibit people on its side from coming into contact with anyone on the Nepalese side. …

China cancels Everest climbs over fears of virus from Nepal
3 years, 10 months ago

China cancels Everest climbs over fears of virus from Nepal

Deccan Chronicle  

Beijing: China has cancelled attempts to climb Mount Everest from its side of the world's highest peak because of fears of importing COVID-19 cases from neighbouring Nepal, state media reported. The closure was confirmed in a notice Friday from China's General Administration of Sport, the official Xinhua News Agency said. While China has mostly curbed domestic transmission of the coronavirus, …

China cancels Everest climbs over fears of virus from Nepal
3 years, 10 months ago

China cancels Everest climbs over fears of virus from Nepal

India TV News  

China has cancelled attempts to climb Mount Everest from its side of the world's highest peak because of fears of importing COVID-19 cases from neighbouring Nepal, state media reported. The closure was confirmed in a notice Friday from China's General Administration of Sport, the official Xinhua News Agency said. While China has mostly curbed domestic transmission of the coronavirus, Nepal …

China cancels Everest climbs over fears of virus from Nepal
3 years, 10 months ago

China cancels Everest climbs over fears of virus from Nepal

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy China has canceled attempts to …

China cancels Everest spring climb citing Covid concerns days after 'line of separation' move
3 years, 10 months ago

China cancels Everest spring climb citing Covid concerns days after 'line of separation' move

India Today  

China has decided to cancel the 2021 spring climbing season from the Tibetan side of Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, because of coronavirus concerns, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. The Himalayan nation of Nepal, which is so short of oxygen canisters it has asked mountaineers to bring back their empties, has issued a record 408 permits …

Climbers to return to Mount Everest after Nepal’s COVID closure
4 years ago

Climbers to return to Mount Everest after Nepal’s COVID closure

Al Jazeera  

More than 300 foreign climbers likely to attempt to scale the world’s tallest peak beginning in April after a year of closure due to coronavirus. Hundreds of climbers are set to return to Mount Everest for the first time next month under strict conditions, government officials and mountaineers said, as the world’s tallest peak reopens after a year of closure …

Mount Everest | Higher than the Himalayas
4 years, 3 months ago

Mount Everest | Higher than the Himalayas

The Hindu  

When Nepal and China were discussing the fate of Mount Everest in their border negotiations in the early 1960s, then Prime Minister B.P. ‘Peak of friendship’ Six decades on after the boundary negotiations, the story took another step towards resolution on December 8, when Nepal and China jointly announced the new height of Mount Everest as 8,848.86 meters in a …

Mount Everest's Joint Measurement Marks New Milestone in Ties with Nepal: China
4 years, 3 months ago

Mount Everest's Joint Measurement Marks New Milestone in Ties with Nepal: China

News 18  

China on Wednesday termed its joint efforts with Nepal to measure Mount Everest's height as a new milestone for the burgeoning friendship between the two countries, with its official media saying it is a crucial step towards solving few remaining bilateral disputes. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, during a media briefing here, said that the new height of Mt …

Mount Everest is 8,848.86 metres tall: Nepal & China after remeasurement
4 years, 3 months ago

Mount Everest is 8,848.86 metres tall: Nepal & China after remeasurement

Deccan Chronicle  

Kathmandu/Beijing: The world's highest peak is now taller by 86 centimetres, Nepal and China jointly announced on Tuesday after they remeasured Mt. The exact height of Mount Everest had been contested ever since a group of British surveyors in India declared the height of Peak XV, as it was initially called, to be 8,778 metres in 1847. The new height …

Mount Everest ‘grows by nearly a metre’ as China and Nepal agree on new height
4 years, 3 months ago

Mount Everest ‘grows by nearly a metre’ as China and Nepal agree on new height

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Mount Everest, the world’s highest …

Nepal to announce new height of Mt Everest soon
4 years, 4 months ago

Nepal to announce new height of Mt Everest soon

India TV News  

Nepal is going to announce the new height of Mt Everest, the world's tallest peak, very soon. A Cabinet meeting on Wednesday evening gave nod to Nepal's Ministry of Land Management to announce the height of Everest and according to some media reports, as the peak has appeared taller than it was but no official confirmation yet. Nepal had started …

Nepal reopens Everest for trekking season despite virus concerns
4 years, 7 months ago

Nepal reopens Everest for trekking season despite virus concerns

Deccan Chronicle  

Kathmandu: Nepal has reopened its mountains -- including Everest -- for the autumn trekking and climbing season in a bid to boost the struggling tourism sector, officials said Friday, despite coronavirus uncertainty. "It would be a relief for mountaineering workers if we can run expeditions after an empty spring season," Sherpa said. Autumn summits on Everest last year were thwarted …

Nepal closes Mount Everest for climbers over coronavirus fears
5 years ago

Nepal closes Mount Everest for climbers over coronavirus fears

Al Jazeera  

The Himalayan nation will also stop issuing visas on arrival after UN health agency declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Nepal will stop issuing visas on arrival until April 30 and closed all of its peaks, including Mount Everest, this climbing season because of fears of the coronavirus pandemic, according to government officials. Tourism Minister Yogesh Bhattarai said expeditions to all peaks …

Everest climbers will now have to disclose full medical history, mandatory insurance
5 years, 3 months ago

Everest climbers will now have to disclose full medical history, mandatory insurance

India TV News  

Climbers at Mount Everest will now be needed to disclose their full medical history. According to a new set of rules drafted by Nepal's Tourism Department, climbers would also be required to submit a medical report by a certified doctor, along with a mandatory insurance in order to obtain the permit to climb mountains in Nepal, including the world's tallest …

Nepali climber scales world's 14 highest peaks in 190 days
5 years, 5 months ago

Nepali climber scales world's 14 highest peaks in 190 days

India TV News  

A Nepali mountaineer has created history by scaling the world's 14 highest peaks in record 190 days after he climbed Mt Shishapangma in China on Tuesday. Nirmal Purja, 36, known as Nims, broke the previous record of a South Korean climber, Kim Chang-ho, who achieved the feat in 2003 to scale all the peaks higher than 8,000 metres in seven …

Global warming affects Mt Everest, exposes 10 tonnes of garbage and human remains
5 years, 10 months ago

Global warming affects Mt Everest, exposes 10 tonnes of garbage and human remains

Firstpost  

Many people who climb the mountain pay very little attention to the ugly footprint they leave behind. Four bodies have been retrieved from Everest and some ten tonnes of garbage plucked from the mountain at the end of this year’s climbing season, Nepal authorities said Monday. Global warming means melting glaciers are revealing human remains and rubbish, which has gathered …

Mount Everest: four bodies and ten tonnes of garbage retrieved from the mountain
5 years, 10 months ago

Mount Everest: four bodies and ten tonnes of garbage retrieved from the mountain

The Hindu  

Four bodies have been retrieved from Everest and some ten tonnes of garbage plucked from the mountain at the end of this year's climbing season, Nepal authorities said on Monday. READ | Odisha mountaineer Kalpana Das dies, traffic at summit sparks safety concerns The four bodies were brought down by helicopter last week according to media reports. READ | Deaths …

Mount Everest: Two more climbers die reaching summit
5 years, 10 months ago

Mount Everest: Two more climbers die reaching summit

The Hindu  

A huge queue of climbers has formed near the summit of Mount Everest as expedition organisers Thursday reported two more deaths on the world's highest mountain. READ | Two Indian climbers die on world's third highest mountain Donald Lynn Cash, 55, collapsed at the summit on Wednesday as he was taking photographs, while Anjali Kulkarni, also 55, died while descending …

Climate change isn't the only thing affecting Everest – bodies, trash and poop are too
5 years, 10 months ago

Climate change isn't the only thing affecting Everest – bodies, trash and poop are too

Firstpost  

A 14-member team has been tasked with tidying up Everest, the world’s highest dumping ground. A dedicated clean-up team sent to Mount Everest has collected three tonnes of garbage in its first two weeks, officials said Wednesday, in an ambitious plan to clean the world’s highest rubbish dump. As this year’s spring climbing season kicked off last month, the Nepal …

China differs with Nepal on Mount Everest’s height, says the peak is 8844.43 metres, not 8,848 metres, tall.
7 years, 1 month ago

China differs with Nepal on Mount Everest’s height, says the peak is 8844.43 metres, not 8,848 metres, tall.

The Hindu  

China continues to differ with Nepal over the height of Mount Everest and sticks to its own calculation of the world’s highest peak which is four meters less than the Kathmandu’s measurement, a media report said today. The Chinese official media has contradicted the recent The New York Times report that China had recognised the mountain’s height as 8,848 meters, …

Spring attracts hundreds of climbers to Tibet's peaks
7 years, 11 months ago

Spring attracts hundreds of climbers to Tibet's peaks

China Daily  

Nepali mountaineer Min Bahadur Sherchan wants to regain his title as the oldest to scale Qomolangma. More than 300 mountaineers from around the world will try to conquer some of the planet's highest peaks during this year's spring climbing season in the Tibet autonomous region. "The best time to climb is the last week of May, because conducive weather factors …

Scaling greater heights: Nepal woman beats own record for maximum Everest summits
8 years, 10 months ago

Scaling greater heights: Nepal woman beats own record for maximum Everest summits

Firstpost  

A Nepali mountaineer broke her own world record for the maximum number of Everest summits by a woman after scaling the peak for the seventh time on Friday. Kathmandu: A Nepali mountaineer broke her own world record for the maximum number of Everest summits by a woman after scaling the peak for the seventh time on Friday, her expedition company …

First climbers summit Mt Everest 2 years after deadly disasters
8 years, 10 months ago

First climbers summit Mt Everest 2 years after deadly disasters

Hindustan Times  

Nine Nepalis reached the top of Mount Everest on Wednesday, the first group of climbers to summit the world’s highest mountain in two years after deadly disasters forced a shutdown. Nine Nepalis reached the top of Mount Everest on Wednesday, the first group of climbers to summit the world’s highest mountain in three years after deadly disasters forced a shutdown. …

Nepal may ban inexperienced, disabled climbers from Everest
9 years, 6 months ago

Nepal may ban inexperienced, disabled climbers from Everest

Firstpost  

Nepal is considering banning severely disabled climbers along with inexperienced climbers and those deemed too old from Everest and other mountains in an attempt to improve safety. Kathmandu: Nepal is considering banning severely disabled climbers along with inexperienced climbers and those deemed too old from Everest and other mountains in an attempt to improve safety, the head of its tourism …

Nepal may tell aspiring climbers: Beginners keep out
9 years, 6 months ago

Nepal may tell aspiring climbers: Beginners keep out

LA Times  

The Guardian is reporting that officials in Nepal are weighing a ban on novice climbers on Mt. The proposed change comes as a new movie, “Everest,” focuses adventure travelers’ attention on the world’s highest peak. Author Jon Krakauer, who wrote about the mountaineering tragedy in “Into Thin Air,” has called the movie “total bull” for its handling of the facts …

Mount Everest moved 3 cm but height not affected by Nepal quakes
9 years, 9 months ago

Mount Everest moved 3 cm but height not affected by Nepal quakes

Firstpost  

Mt Everest moved three cms during the recent devastating earthquakes in Nepal but contrary to earlier reports the height of world’s tallest mountain has not been affected, Chinese official monitoring agency said on Monday. Beijing: Mt Everest moved three cms during the recent devastating earthquakes in Nepal but contrary to earlier reports the height of world’s tallest mountain has not …

Climbers safe on northern slope of Mt Everest: China
9 years, 11 months ago

Climbers safe on northern slope of Mt Everest: China

India TV News  

Beijing: Over 400 mountain climbers on the Tibetan side of Mount Everest have descended or are descending with no casualties reported, Chinese authorities said today. A 7.9-magnitude quake shook neighbouring Nepal yesterday, causing avalanches on the world's highest mountain, that killed at least 22 climbers and guides on the Nepal side of the mountain. Foreign climbers from more than 20 …

Everest's poop problem: Pile up of human waste causing pollution on world's highest peak
10 years ago

Everest's poop problem: Pile up of human waste causing pollution on world's highest peak

Firstpost  

Human waste left by climbers on Mount Everest has become a problem that is causing pollution and threatening to spread disease on the peak. Kathmandu: Human waste left by climbers on Mount Everest has become a problem that is causing pollution and threatening to spread disease on the world’s highest peak, the chief of Nepal’s mountaineering association said Tuesday. “Climbers …

Mount Everest's massive trash problem: Nepal cracks down on littering tourists
11 years ago

Mount Everest's massive trash problem: Nepal cracks down on littering tourists

Salon  

The worst thing to ever happen to Mount Everest was becoming a tourist destination. Mountaineer Mark Jenkins described it in stark terms last year in National Geographic: "The two standard routes, the Northeast Ridge and the Southeast Ridge, are not only dangerously crowded but also disgustingly polluted, with garbage leaking out of the glaciers and pyramids of human excrement befouling …

Tibet gears up for new climbing season
11 years, 6 months ago

Tibet gears up for new climbing season

China Daily  

Tibet gears up for new climbing season Updated: 2013-09-17 01:54 By WANG HUAZHONG in Lhasa The Tibet autonomous region is bracing itself for the start of the fall climbing season, with over 250 mostly foreign mountaineers expected to tackle the region's famous mountains, some of which stand more than 8,000 meters high. Despite a drop in the number of mountaineers …

Everest not as tall as thought › News in Science (ABC Science)
19 years, 5 months ago

Everest not as tall as thought › News in Science (ABC Science)

ABC  

News in Science Everest not as tall as thought Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, is some four metres shorter than previously thought, a new Chinese survey reveals. The new height is 3.7 metres shorter than China's previous measurement of Mount Everest, or Mount Qomolangma as it is known to locals, of 8848.13 metres. Chen says the Qomolangma region is …

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