A team of researchers is making final preparations for a trip to Mount Everest in Nepal next month to explore why the ice of ...

Sherpa on Mount Everest is a dangerous job. They transport equipment through the dangerous Khumbu Icefall. Drones are supposed to reduce the danger. Sherpas on Mount Everest, the highest mountain ...

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The Sherpa Ice Doctors who find the route through Everest's dangerous Khumbu Icefall will no longer have to hunt for a safe way by trial and error. Cargo drones will ...

A new chapter in Mount Everest expeditions is ... takes Sherpas seven hours on foot between Mt Everest’s base camp and Camp-I. By reducing the need for repeated, risky crossings through the Khumbu ...

Sherpas on Mount Everest are fearing for their jobs after plans were announced to use Chinese drones to ferry equipment up and down the world’s tallest mountain. Perilous tasks that used to take ...

On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa (Himalayan mountain guide) Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached Mount Everest's summit ... a route through the treacherous ...

An eight-member ‘icefall doctor’ team left for Everest Base Camp to fix climbing routes up to Camp 2 led by Ang Sarki Sherpa. Icefall doctors conduct a survey of the glacier and fix ladders and ropes ...

The spring climbing season will begin in the next several weeks in the Himalayas – including teams headed to Mount ... Icefall presents one of the most dynamic and dangerous sections of the ...