From here, the snow ridge rises 1,000 feet to the South Summit ... feet down the Southwest Face, were it not for the fixed ropes. The most famous physical feature on Everest, the Hillary Step ...

On 7 October the Slovenian Davo Karnicar made the first uninterrupted ski descent of the South Face of Everest On 7 October the Slovenian Davo Karnicar made the first uninterrupted ski descent of the ...

“Robson has such a big South Face that we wanted to limit solar radiation ... Pierrel hinted his interest in attempting to ski Mount Everest’s Hornbein Couloir, a line he describes as ...

Often called the "Valley of Silence," the Western Cwm is a broad, flat, gently undulating glacial valley basin terminating at the foot of the Lhotse Face ... 8,000 feet of Everest—the first ...

But for South African mountaineer ... For me, a climb is not just a climb; it’s a mirror of the struggles we face as human beings. As with the tenacity needed to take on Everest, GBV survivors find ...