Climate scientists Baker Perry and Tom Matthews, along with a team of Sherpas, build an automatic weather station at the Balcony on Mount Everest.

The 2023 death toll on Everest has already reached double digits—with multiple people still missing. ... “At the Balcony during our summit push around 8,300m, I saw someone in danger.

A Nepali sherpa who was helping a client conquer Mount Everest stopped the trip to save a distressed climber in an area known as the mountain’s “death zone.” The sherpa, named Gelje, is an ...

The 2025 Mount Everest season will also be remembered for the unsuccessful attempts by two runners—American Tyler Andrews and Swiss-Ecuadorian Karl Egloff—to set a speed record on the peak.

After a 17-hour, non-stop run without supplementary oxygen from Base Camp to above the Balcony (8,400m), the U.S. runner has decided to go down.

Over a period of six hours, Gelje, 30, hauled the climber about 1,900 feet down from the Balcony area to the South Col, where another guide, Nima Tahi Sherpa, joined the rescue.

Doing Everest, Lhotse, ... "I'd say 90% of people [ahead of us] turned around at the Balcony, but again we pressed on to have a look for ourselves and luckily, the winds abated," Whiting said.

A Nepali sherpa reached the summit of Mount Everest for a record 28th time on Tuesday, an official said, completing his second ascent in just a week, as the toll in this year’s climbing season ...

Malaysian climber Ravichandran, who goes by the name Ravichandran Everest or Ravi, ... At the Balcony during our summit push around 8,300m I saw someone in danger.

Everest climber blocks Sherpa who saved his life on Instagram. After a Malaysian climber was saved by Gelje Sherpa, he blocked the man who saved his life on Instagram.

Doing Everest, Lhotse, ... "I'd say 90% of people [ahead of us] turned around at the Balcony, but again we pressed on to have a look for ourselves and luckily, the winds abated," Whiting said.