The world's highest mountain is buckling under the weight of its popularity. Thankfully, a few organizations have stepped in ...

Foot, boot and sock believed to belong to Sandy Irvine, who disappeared in a 1924 expedition, according to National Geographic.

According to the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee’s 2022 report, that spring climbers generated more than 16,000 kilograms (35,000 pounds) of poop on Mount Everest, Mount Lhotse and Mount ...

There are few sights in the entire world–few iconic horizons–that can make you stop in your tracks and struggle for words.

Nepal is home Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world ... And once you leave Kathmandu and enter Sagarmatha National Park, you'll leave the hustle and bustle behind for one of the most ...

It’s an extreme adventure playground that is there for the conquering – but increasingly there are distressing stories of overcrowding at the summit, pollution across the ranges and locals who ...

Mr Sherpa is one of Nepal's highly experienced mountain guides, known as "icefall doctors", who fix ropes and aluminium ladders for climbers on Mount Everest ... warden of the Sagarmatha National ...

STOCKHOLM, May 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- 200 tonnes of waste are generated in the Mount Everest region every year. That is why Sagarmatha Next, an experience centre at 3,775 meters on the foot of ...

A joint meeting of Sagarmatha National ... also those making their way up the Everest region in the coming days. Similarly, Nima Nuru Sherpa, president of Nepal Mountaineering Association, said ...

Many mountaineers use open spaces as toilets on the higher camps of Everest People climbing Mount Everest will now ... of the non-government organisation Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee ...

The first of the camps was set up in 2016, one year after Nepal ... Sagarmatha Next is not alone in its quest to cleanse Everest’s landscape and image. Since 2014, every climber on Mt Everest ...