Ambitious climbers set to tackle Mount Everest are now being told to pick up their own up poop, as the mountain’s home country Nepal aims to combat a longstanding and smelly problem. Climbers ...

Back in the good old days of summiting Mount Everest, you could just shimmy down your pants, drop a deuce, and leave it right there on the snowy ground. The problem with just leaving poop on the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Mount Everest is littered with an estimated 50 metric tons of waste, and each climber generates an average of 8 kilograms more. The Nepalese government spends $7.5 ...

The devices will be used to airlift heavy, dangerous loads normally carried by mountain guides. They might even deliver a hot ...

But environmental activists are using the occasion to call attention to the tons and tons of garbage — and human excrement — that have been left on Mt. Everest's slopes in the decades since ...

More than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest, according to Nepalese officials, so finding human remains on the mountain is not exactly uncommon. However, the discovery of a frozen ...

For the first time, drones will be used on Mount Everest to carry gear and clean up, helping Sherpas and improving safety ...