Mt Everest

International Everest Day 2024: Date, History, Significance, & Facts

International Everest Day is observed on 29 May in Nepal and New Zealand to remember the first successful summit of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953

It's dirty now, says last surviving member of 1st team to climb Mt Everest

The only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition that first conquered Mount Everest said Saturday that the world's highest peak is too crowded and dirty, and the mountain is a god that needs to be respected. Kanchha Sherpa, 91, was among the 35 members in the team that put New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay atop the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) peak on May 29, 1953. It would be better for the mountain to reduce the number of climbers, Kanchha said in an interview in Kathmandu on Saturday, Right now there is always a big crowd of people at the summit. Since the first conquest, the peak has been climbed thousands of times, and it gets more crowded every year. During the spring climbing season in 2023, 667 climbers scaled the peak, but that brought in thousands of support staff to the base camp between the months of March and May. There have been concerns about the number of people living on the mountain for months on end, generating trash and wast

Nepal considers raising Mt Everest climbing fee to $15,000 for foreigners

The Nepal government on Monday said it is contemplating hiking the royalty fee to obtain permission to climb Mount Everest by USD 4,000 to USD 15,000, effective from 2025. Presently, foreign climbers seeking to conquer the world's tallest mountain, standing at 8,848.86 metres, are required to pay a royalty fee of USD 11,000. Nepali climbers are subject to a fee of NRs 75,000. The government had last revised the royalty fee in January 2015. The Department of Tourism has proposed a new royalty fee of USD 15,000 per foreign national desirous to climb Mt Everest from 2025," department spokesperson Yuvaraj Khatiwada said. The new fee will be applicable once the proposal is endorsed by the Cabinet. The current fee structure enables any foreign climber to ascend Mt Everest from the South Face (Nepal side) upon payment of USD 11,000. Prior to 2015, group expeditions, consisting of a maximum of 15 members, incurred a cost of USD 10,000 per person. However, the group provision was later ...

TMS Ep442: New Parliament building, Mt Everest, Nilesh Shah, price rigging

How was India's new Parliament built? How much will it cost you to climb Mt Everest? Has the Rahu Kaalam for the Indian markets ended? What is price rigging? All answers here

500 climbers scaled Everest during current expedition season: Nepal tourism

A total of 500 climbers have successfully scaled Mt Everest during the current expedition season to the world's highest peak, Nepal's tourism department said on Monday. Nepal's Tourism Board, which handles the permits for the expedition to the 8,848.86 metres-high Mt Everest and other mountains in the Himalayan nation, issued a record 478 permits to mountaineers from various nations, including India, for the climbing season that started on May 13. "A total of 478 mountaineers received expedition permits to climb Mt. Everest in this season. The 500 who reached the Everest Summit also include the Sherpa guides from different expeditions," the tourism department said. Permits are mandatory for every new person qualified to climb Mt Everest, but there is no such requisite needed for the Sherpa guides, who are permanently authorised. Officials said that so far 12 climbers, four Nepalese, one Indian and one Chinese died during their respective expeditions to Mt Everest. This season of t

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How tall is tallest peak? Historical row over Mt Everest height explained

The revised height of Mt Everest puts an end to the decades-long dispute between Nepal and China. All you need to know about the controversy

Nepal to announce new height of Mount Everest soon

Nepal is going to announce the new height of Mt Everest, the world's tallest peak, very soon

Mount Everest summit success rates doubled over last 30 years, study finds

The researchers found that the overall death rate of around one per cent hasn't changed

Book review: Photos paying tribute to the Himalayan splendour of Solukhumbu

The haunting photographs of Himalayas remind us why we must do everything in our power to sustain the fragile ecology of these precious mountains, says Shyam Saran

Trash mountain: Abandoned tents, human waste pile up on Mt Everest

At Camp 2, two levels higher than Base Camp, the campaigners believe that around 8,000 kilograms of human waste were left during this year's climbing season alone

Mt Everest's risky peak: Mountaineers open up about what needs to change

Colorado-based mountaineer Alan Arnette poses the question: If there are qualifiers for the Ironman Triathlon, then why not for summiting the world's highest mountain?

Death toll reaches 9 this season, 4 more climbers found dead on Mt Everest

Sherpa climbers spotted 4 bodies, 2 Nepalis, 2 foreigners at camp IV on Tuesday: reports

Post-quake, cracks and holes develop in Mt Everest

The SPCC said that it would take at least a month for the climbing to begin after the routes are prepared.