The world has a fascination with Mount Everest – one that brings both money and destruction to Nepal's Himalayan region. Now, ...

Kathmandu - On Everest's sacred slopes, climate change is thinning snow and ice, increasingly exposing the bodies of hundreds of mountaineers who died chasing their dream to summit the world's ...

More than 310 people have died climbing Everest since exploration first started in the early 1900s. It's dangerous to retrieve the bodies, so many litter the mountain to this day. Many have blamed ...

The video shows a large amount of trash scattered around tents and hikers on Mount Everest with the title "World's highest garbage dump (Mt. Everest)." The litter includes discarded oxygen ...

Katie McCay on her way the basecamp of Mount Everest in March 2024. She says she heard of a group offering tours of the mountain to plus-size and slower groups.

In his latest video dispatch, Ben Ayers discusses the big storylines that shaped the spring climbing season on the world’s ...

A mountain guide on Mount Everest has taken to Instagram to show the litter left behind by climbers. Jam Press Vid/@tenzi_sherpa1999 The clip showed huge quantities of hiking gear and ...

A Sherpa bags up litter on Mount Everest at 8,000 meters. (Image credit: Namgyal Sherpa/AFP/Getty) Mount Everest has a mountain of a problem: human waste.

Dead bodies are a common sight on top of Mount Everest. On average, six people die climbing the world's tallest peak each year. The year 2015 was the mountain's deadliest in recent history, when ...

As Mount Everest risks becoming the world's highest garbage dump, ... 'Litter you can just collect and burn it, but contamination is the unseen problem. 'We can put men on the moon, ...