American climber breaks Mount Everest speed record with sub-10-hour summit

4 June 2026

Everest’s Surprising Past: How the roof of the world was once ocean floor

2 December 2025

Nine-year-old completes 12-day trek to Everest base camp with his dad

25 November 2025

Nearly 1,000 climbers stranded on Mount Everest as blizzard triggers major rescue effort

6 October 2025

New Everest safety rules delayed ahead of climbing season

9 March 2020

Mount Everest's 2020 climbing season begins in April and lasts through May, however, as the... read more

First African all-woman Everest team needs funding

19 February 2020

Africa's first ever all-woman climbing team plan to tackle Mount Everest in 2020. Despite being... read more

Melting ice exposes waste and bodies on Mount Everest

18 September 2019

Melting snow and ice is revealing the extensive pollution left on Mount Everest by climbers,... read more

Nepal bans single-use plastic on Mount Everest

29 August 2019

At 8,848 meters tall, Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, is one of the riskiest... read more

8-year-old boy climbs to Everest Base Camp

22 July 2019

Eight-year-old Singaporean schoolboy Darrshan Raj Thurairajasingam recently spent part of his June school holidays climbing... read more

Why are more climbers perishing on Everest?

27 May 2019

May has seen the highest number of aspirant climbers ascend Mount Everest, but poor weather... read more

Sherpa summits Mt. Everest twice in one week

22 May 2019

Veteran Nepalese mountain climber and sherpa, Kami Rita, broke his own world record when he... read more

SA’s first black female summits Mt. Everest

16 May 2019

Saray N'kusi Khumalo summited Mount Everest in the early hours of Thursday, 16 May 2019,... read more

China closes Everest base camp for rubbish clean-up

15 February 2019

China has temporarily closed their base camp on the side of Mountain Everest in an... read more