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Ladder Crossing Crevasses on Mt. Everest
Over the Khumbu Icefall crevice on Mount Everest, this adventurer set up a double ladder so that he could cross the nearly 90 ...
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THE WEEK goes to Machoi Glacier where India trains its soldiers to guard its crucial heights
On snow-covered battlefields like the Himalayas, the Army wants its junior leadership to become decision-makers at the ...
Iconic and Culturally Significant Denali Returning to Presidential Name?
Denali Denali (21,310 ft.), located in Alaska’s Denali National Park, the highest peak in North America and a member of the ...
Climate crisis and sport: We’re climbing in T-shirts now, says Himalayan mountaineer
It hurts to see crevasses in the glaciers, and bare rock where there was once only ice. ‘If it’s too hot in the Himalayas, ...
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The Price to Climb Mount Everest Will Rise to $15,000 This Year
Foreign climbers who want to try reaching the top of the 29,032-foot-tall peak will face higher permit fees in Nepal starting ...
Nepal increases Mount Everest climbing fee to $15,000
Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more ...
Nepal Is Raising the Permit Fee to Climb Mount Everest
The price of a permit to climb the world’s highest peak will rise 36 percent later this year. Guides believe that climbers ...
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Nepal steeply increases cost of climbing Mount Everest
Conquering Mount Everest will cost climbers an extra $4,000 (£3,270) after Nepal hiked up fees for the first time in almost a decade. Nepal's government has announced a 36% increase in permit ...