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May182020 by adminNo Comments

Chinese survey team plans to summit deserted Everest

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A Chinese government-backed team plans to summit Mount Everest this week at a time when the world’s tallest peak has been closed to commercial climbersByThe Associated PressMay 17, 2020, 2:32 AM2 min read2 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articleBEIJING -- A Chinese government-backed team plans to summit Mount Everest this week at a time when the world's tallest peak has been closed to commercial climbers. Bad weather forced the team charged with measuring the mountain's current height to return to base camp, but they have since taken up their former position, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. As long as the weather holds, the team expects to reach the summit on Friday morning, Xinhua quoted Wang Yongfeng, deputy director of the mountaineering administrative c...

May252019 by adminNo Comments

Everest: Three more die amid overcrowding near summit

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Three more climbers have died on Mount Everest, taking the death toll to seven in a week - more than the total for the whole of last year.The three died of exhaustion while descending on Thursday.It comes amid traffic jams near the summit as record numbers make the ascent, despite calls to limit the number of climbing permits.Nepal has issued 381 permits at $ 11,000 (£8,600) each for the spring climbing season at the world's highest peak. Two Indian climbers - Kalpana Das, 52, and Nihal Bagwan, 27 - died while scaling back down the mountain on Thursday. Local tour organiser Keshav Paudel told AFP news agency that Bagwan had been "stuck in the traffic for more than 12 hours and was exhausted".A 65-year-old Austrian climber died on...

Mar212019 by adminNo Comments

Mount Everest: Melting glaciers expose dead bodies

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Expedition operators are concerned at the number of climbers' bodies that are becoming exposed on Mount Everest as its glaciers melt.Nearly 300 mountaineers have died on the peak since the first ascent attempt and two-thirds of bodies are thought still to be buried in the snow and ice.Bodies are being removed on the Chinese side of the mountain, to the north, as the spring climbing season starts.More than 4,800 climbers have scaled the highest peak on Earth. "Because of global warming, the ice sheet and glaciers are fast melting and the dead bodies that remained buried all these years are now becoming exposed," said Ang Tshering Sherpa, former president of Nepal Mountaineering Association."We have brought down dead bodies of som...

Oct212018 by adminNo Comments

Legendary team's 1921 Everest album

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British mountaineer George Mallory took his last breath on the imperious slopes of Everest in 1924.But three years before that, he made history as part of the first British reconnaissance expedition to the world's highest peak.Led by soldier and explorer Charles Howard-Bury, this was the first group of Westerners to set foot on Everest.Mallory and fellow climber Guy Bullock made it 23,000ft up the mountain via the North Col, on Everest's north ridge, before searing winds forced them to turn back. Their journey proved that there was indeed a path to the top of the world. These are the pictures they took on the way:The rocky shot below was captured on the Kyetrak Glacier on Cho Oyo, a mountain who...

May142018 by adminNo Comments

69-year-old double amputee climbs Everest after decades-long mission

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May 14 (UPI) -- A 69-year-old Chinese man reached the top of Mount Everest Monday, on his fifth try -- decades after a prior attempt forced doctors to amputate both his legs. Xia Boyu was guided by Mingma Gyalje Sherpa, a veteran mountaineer who's successfully climbed the world's 14 highest mountains, and joined by 11 others. Xia's son said his father had finally realized his "40 years dream" by reaching the top of the world's highest peak early Monday. "I love the mountain," Xia told TIME magazine before the climb, "I will fight for it my entire life." "Boyu finally won his 40-year-long battle for Mount Everest," the sherpa said Monday. Xia lost both legs below the knee when he was 25, after a failed attempt in the mid-1980s resulted in severe frostbite. In December, Nepal banned solo c...