News

Kesley Bone and Scot Pominville got married on Mount Kilimanjaro in early July after a six-day hike to the 19,300-foot summit ...
"Mount Everest is the pinnacle, and getting to base camp would be the closest I would ever get or hope to get to trekking to the summit," Kim Bailey told CBC Island Morning host Mitch Cormier.
Sherchan went back to Everest to try to regain the title he claimed at age 76, in 2008. He lost the record five years later, when the Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura reached the summit of the ...
The dead climbers were found at Camp 4, located at 8,000 metres. That is the last stop before the final push to the 8,850 metre summit You can save this article by registering for free here. Or ...
Corrections The original headline stated the bodies were found at Everest's base camp. They were in fact found at the mountain's highest camp before climbers bid for the summit. May 24, 2017 7:04 ...
Yaks and other animals are a common sight along the Everest Base Camp trail. Throughout the trek, there are many suspension bridges that trekkers must cross. The longest is the Hillary suspension ...
The men are not the fastest to climb Everest – that record is held by Nepali climber Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa, who climbed from base camp to the the summit in 10 hours and 56 minutes in 2003.
“It was fabulous. Everest is so big. You just can’t appreciate the scale at all. It’s truly amazing,” John Oldring, 64, said after summiting on May 25.
China "closing" base camp to tourists is the latest example of this. With a new paved road all the way to base camp built in the spring of 2017, tourism to the North Side base camp has rapidly ...
A former Royal Marine has completed the “world’s longest triathlon”, which he started in the UK and finished at the summit of Mount Everest. Mitch Hutchcraft, 32, from Cambridgeshire ...