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 ...

Ngima Gyalzen Sherpa, 26, working at the Khumbu Icefall as part of the team of "icefall doctors" opening the route in 2022. Most Mount Everest climbers only achieve their goal because local ...

The Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) has announced the successful completion of route fixing through the Khumbu Icefall, marking the official opening of the 2025 Everest climbing season.

Climbing season is here on the world’s highest peak, and there’s already controversy, drama, new technology, and record ...

Korea-based Black Yak Company Ltd has announced to support Icefall doctors who are instrumental in fixing routes on Mt Everest. A memorandum of understanding has been signed to this effect in the ...

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, ...

This year, climbers on Mount Everest will use a new route through the Khumbu Icefall, the fast-moving and highly-unpredictable foot of the Khumbu Glacier that climbers must pass through on their way ...

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 ...

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 ...