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'Losing Mount Everest every day': A planet’s scorching death caught 140 light-years from Earth
A planet 140 light-years away is disintegrating fast—losing a Mount Everest’s mass daily. Its 9-million-km rocky tail marks a ...
Drones can deliver supplies on Mount Everest this year, and it may change climbing forever
A new drone service is delivering supplies such as ladders and oxygen cylinders on Mount Everest, making it safer for Sherpas ...
One Orbit, One Everest Lost: A Planet Evaporates Into a 9-Million-Kilometer Tail
Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...
How High Can A Helicopter Fly? (And Can It Get To The Top Of Mount Everest?)
Didier Delsalle landed on the top of Everest in a Eurocopter AS 350 B3. This feat went down as the highest helicopter landing ...
Get to Base Camp Late! Tips We Learned at a Mount Everest Safety Briefing.
Our Everest correspondent recently attended a pre-climb meeting held by guiding company Seven Summit Treks in downtown ...
Famed Sherpa guide will attempt to climb Mt. Everest for a 31st time, breaking his own record
One of the greatest mountain guides, Kami Rita, will attempt to scale the world's highest peak for the 31st time — and ...
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Mount Everest guide Ang Dawa Sherpa moves to Vermont and earns his CDL with support from VSAC
Ang Dawa Sherpa nearly perished on his first Everest climb because he wasn’t prepared; then he went to school in Nepal for a mountain guide degree. After moving to the US, he wasn’t surprised to find ...
Climb for a Cause: Mount Trashmore Challenge returns
Mount Trashmore Challenge is now underway, inviting participants to scale Mount Trashmore up to 140 times—the equivalent of ...
Sherpa climber set to break his own record for ascents of Mount Everest
Veteran Sherpa climber Kami Rita is preparing for a record-breaking ascent of Mount Everest. The 55-year-old, considered one ...
Drones To Deliver Supplies, Pick Trash And Help Sherpas On Mount Everest
The trials have already started with Airlift Nepal's first clean-up drive, involving a drone being used to bring down about ...
Famed Sherpa guide will attempt to climb Mount Everest for a 31st time and break his own record
One of the greatest mountain guides will attempt to scale the world’s highest peak for the 31st time — and possibly the 32nd ...
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South Shields support worker reaches Everest Base Camp in epic charity trek
In a personal tribute to her sister, Melanie Burn, a support worker at Wallace Mews in South Shields, part of Salutem Care ...