everest-base-camp

Chopper vs Chauri below Everest

Expeditions impacted by rule to replace cargo helicopters with yak trains

Letters from Base Camp 2

Everest Base Camp is ever-changing. The weather, the comings and goings, new world records — and the ice beneath. The night is punctuated by...

Letters from Everest Base Camp 1

Everest Base Camp sits on a moving, melting avenue of ice and boulders. It is today 50m lower than where it was when Hillary...

Everest's Covid dilemma

Nepal's spring mountaineering season, just recovering from avalanches, earthquakes, and a year of Covid-19 lockdown is once more looking uncertain with reports of coronavirus cases at the base camps...

Everest's Covid dilemma

Nepal's spring mountaineering season, just recovering from avalanches, earthquakes, and a year of Covid-19 lockdown is once more looking uncertain with reports of coronavirus cases at the base camps...

Mt Everest City

Despite Covid-19, Everest is more crowded this spring than at any time in climbing history

Despite Covid-19, climbers are back on Everest

Namche Bazar, the gateway to Mt Everest, is currently abuzz with climbers and trekkers as they prepare to head towards Base Camp...

Lifetime experience on Pikey Peak

With new roads, Edmund Hillary’s favourite vantage point is more accessible to trekkers

Teeing off below Everest

https://youtu.be/IBCLqSG_HMMThe Everest Base Camp trek is arduous enough for fit people, but it can be even more difficult for someone over 70....

Everest fights back

(against garbage and bad press)