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 ...

The spring climbing season will begin in the next several weeks in the Himalayas – including teams headed to Mount Everest. The highest mountain in the world stands 29,029 feet. Located in the ...

May 4—They slipped out of camp silently in the darkness, like the juniper smoke that drifts skyward from nearby burning altars, disappearing into the Khumbu Icefall for what we think will be the ...

The Sherpa Ice Doctors who find the route through Everest's dangerous Khumbu Icefall will no longer have ... also spend less time in that hazardous area." While drones still need a small generator ...

The team will fix and maintain the Khumbu icefall route for climbers attempting Mt Everest, Lhotse, and Nuptse in the spring 2025 climbing season. The team includes icefall doctors; Ang Sarki ...

The Sherpa team in charge of opening a route through Everest's Khumbu Icefall is about to begin their annual high-risk job. A team of eight Sherpa climbers and a small camp staff left Namche ...

Leeds University Professor Duncan Quincey will lead an expedition to Mount ... to negotiate Khumbu Icefall, regarded as one of the most demanding areas of the South Col route to Everest's summit ...