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 ...

Passage: In memoriam 01:14. 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 ...

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 ...

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

-Tons of trash – oxygen canisters, cans, plastic, ropes, tent parts and pieces, and human waste – litter the slopes of Mount Everest, including in areas near the 29,000-foot summit.

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.

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 ...