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Climbers have turned Mount Everest into a high-altitude garbage dump, but sustainable solutions are within reach
Spring is go time for climbers who hope to summit Mount Everest, Earth’s highest peak ... trekkers and climbers visit the Sagarmatha National Park and Buffer Zone, a high-altitude swath of ...
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A human foot found on Mount Everest is renewing the peak's biggest mystery
More than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest ... mountaineering mysteries of all time. National Geographic reported on Oct. 11 that Everest explorers had found the suspected ...
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These boots took the first American to Everest’s summit
This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Barry Bishop returned from a historic Mount Everest expedition with his reindeer-hide boots, Vibram-soled hiking boots ...
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Defence Minister flags off expeditions to Mt Everest and Mt Kangchenjunga
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh flagged off expeditions to Mount Everest (8,848m) and Mount Kangchenjunga (8,586m) from South Block, New Delhi, on April 03 ...
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Drones Will Do Some Schlepping for Sherpas on Mount Everest
When the main climbing season begins next month on Mount Everest, expedition companies will test drones that can ferry loads as heavy as 35 pounds in the high altitudes, bring back ladders used to ...