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 ...

Anxiety is growing at Everest Base Camp, as a massive serac, or a block of glacial ice, is hindering the route and keeping alpinists in limbo.

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 ...

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, April 28 (Reuters) - A group of Sherpa climbers have opened the route to Mount Everest that had been blocked for two weeks by chunks of ice and a giant serac, allowing ...

Hundreds of climbers are attempting to scale Mount Everest despite high costs and an unstable ice block on the key trail.

The Spring 2026 Everest climbing season claimed its second life on Sunday when Bijay Ghimire Bishwakarma, a veteran climber ...

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After eight days of delays, mounting institutional pressure, and a week that tested the nerves of hundreds of climbers stranded at Base Camp, a joint team of mountain guides and icefall doctors ...

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, ...

Tonnes of ice plummeted hundreds of metres from the Ghost Glacier, on the side of Mt. Edith Cavell and into a pond at the base of the mountain earlier this month, Parks Canada said. The fall caused an ...