TV star Ant Middleton’s son has become the youngest Briton to scale the south side of Everest — at the age of 17.  Gabriel ...
Chhebe Bhote, a Mount Everest climbing Sherpa, ascended 35,000 vertical feet and carried at least 400 pounds up and down the ...
'Getting out of that tent was so tough': 22-year-old Waterford student Adam Sweeney describes the Irish team's decision to ...
Higher up on the scale, we have the aforementioned guides, many of them of the Tibetan/Nepali Sherpa people, some of whom ...
Kathmandu, June 9 -- The face was sunburned and weathered by years in the high Himalayas. Thin and pale from weeks spent ...
A Sherpa climbing guide who was believed to have died high on Mount Everest was found crawling back to Base Camp after ...
A Nepali climbing guide is speaking out for the first time after he was found crawling down the side of Mount Everest six ...
A sherpa was left for dead on Everest. Now out of ICU, his survival story raises new questions - Dawa Sherpa spent nearly a ...
Believed dead and mourned by his family, an Everest Sherpa was found alive after nearly a week alone on the mountain in ...
Following a record-breaking season, Gelje Sherpa has published a series of proposals to make climbing Everest safer. By ...
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On Everest, drones are saving lives, not 'stealing' jobs

Kathmandu, June 4 -- year-old guide Lakpa Ringi Sherpa, this spring climbing season on Everest felt different.
A few chocolates found in his pocket and an avalanche may have been what saved Dawa Sherpa from almost certain death on Mount ...