Everest expedition, Edurne Pasabán.
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Nobody climbs Everest alone, and mountain expeditions can teach us a lot about how to work in a team.
Trash collected in a 2019 cleanup that removed 24,000 pounds (10,000 kilograms) of garbage from Mount Everest.
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Mountain tourism brings revenues to Nepal but leaves a mess behind. Local and international groups are offering new cleanup strategies.
Memorials to climbers who lost their lives on Everest.
Michal Apollo
Since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered Everest/Chomolungma in 1953, commercial mass mountaineering has put unsustainable pressure on unique environments and communities.
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This year is shaping up to be one of the deadliest on record. Here are some of the challenges climbers face when attempting to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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The mountain climbing industry has transformed the lives of the Sherpas – both for good and bad. A new book focuses on their lives and deeds.
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Everest didn’t become the highest mountain overnight. This process was excruciatingly slow; a result of complex interactions between the solid earth, the atmosphere and the biosphere.
Engraving from John Chardin’s Travels into Persia and the East Indies, 1686, showing Mount Ararat, Turkey.
Before reaching summits became part of the new ‘sublime’ in the late 18th century, people didn’t climb mountains.
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It was a matter of ‘national importance’ to the British government that men they sponsored be the first to conquer the mountain.
Climbers begin the long ascent.
Jase Wilson
The 2019 season has been one of Mount Everest’s deadliest for climbers.
Celebrations after setting up the world’s highest weather station during National Geographic and.
Rolex’s 2019 Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mt. Everest.
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A climate scientist goes to work – at 8,500 metres.
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Recent deaths and climate breakdown are leaving more and more bodies on Everest. A new way forward is needed to recover the mortal remains of climbers with dignity and respect.
Katie Miles
Mean annual air temperature on Everest is –13°C at 7,000 metres elevation, and yet the ice in its highest glacier is only –3.3°C.
Climbing a mountain has more to do with how your body deals with altitude, which you can’t control.
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While acclimatising is more important, here’s the training you should undertake to go mountain-climbing.
Meet the first team trying to understand the secrets of Mount Everest’s glaciers.
Olympus Mons, biggest volcano in the Solar System.
Justin Cowart
They erupted for billions of years and make Earth’s volcanoes look like molehills. Here’s what we know and what we don’t know about them.
Everest: The Hillary Step is (or was) just 100 metres below the summit.
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Reports claim the feature has vanished – but then mountains are always changing shape.