Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sherpa team in charge of opening a route through Everest's Khumbu Icefall is about to begin their annual high-risk job. A team ...

The Khumbu Icefall—a chaotic tumble of ice blocks, towers, and crevasses between the Western Cwm and Base Camp—is always among the most dangerous obstacles climbers face on Everest. Each year, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this May 18, 2003 file photo, mountaineers pass through the treacherous Khumbu Icefall on their way to Mount Everest ...

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KATHMANDU: There are 8 billion people in the world, but only 6,664 people successfully reached the top of Mt. Everest. Who are the individuals responsible for making the route possible at the ...

After eight days of delays, mounting institutional pressure, and a week that tested the nerves of hundreds of climbers stranded at Base Camp, a joint team of mountain guides and icefall doctors ...

Climbing Mt. Everest is a dangerous endeavor right from the start. Before climbers summiting via the South Col route can even make it to Camp 1, they must face one of the deadliest passages of all. A ...

Tonnes of ice plummeted hundreds of metres from the Ghost Glacier, on the side of Mt. Edith Cavell and into a pond at the base of the mountain earlier this month, Parks Canada said. The fall caused an ...

Rescuers call it a miracle after a Sherpa guide survived nearly a week alone on Mount Everest without food, water or supplemental oxygen in the death zone.

Percy Fernandez is the expedition photographer with the Indian NCC Everest 2013 team. Founder of Mountain Adventures, he is an outdoor educator and helps design and implement outdoor learning ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NEW DELHI — On Everest, everybody knows that the Khumbu Icefall is dangerous. They’ve known it for generations, since the first great Everest mountaineer, ...

To find redemption, you’ll have to break through. Check out the Icefall trailer for this upcoming movie starring Danny Huston (The Aviator), Joel Kinnaman (The Killing, The Suicide Squad), Graham ...