Nepal aims to restrict inexperienced climbers as overcrowding, traffic jams and preventable deaths raise safety alarms on the ...
The Government of Nepal just made a first pass at the Integrated Tourism Bill, which sets new rules for who can summit Mount ...
Under pressure after a deadly season on traffic-clogged Mount Everest, Nepal is considering tightening access to the world's highest peak, but mountaineering experts fear the proposed changes could ...
Scaling Mount Everest was a dream few realized before Nepal opened its side of the mountain to commercial climbing a half-century ago. This year the government issued a record number of permits, ...
The bodies typically do not decompose on Mount Everest because of the cold temperature. They sometimes break down due to extreme weathering in the glaciers.
A US climber has died after descending from Everest, officials said Tuesday, taking this season's toll to 11 including several deaths blamed on overcrowding on the world's highest mountain.
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The Death Zone, above 8,000 meters on Mount Everest, is a literal physiological boundary where the human body cannot survive ...