Earlier today, a huge serac collapsed in Everest's Khumbu Icefall. No one was injured, but the shifting ice destroyed some of the Sherpas' work. Khunga Sherpa, a guide for Furtenbach Adventures, ...
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 of eight Sherpa climbers and a small camp staff left Namche Bazaar ...
NEW DELHI – On Everest, everybody knows the Khumbu Icefall is dangerous. They’ve known it for generations – since the first great Everest mountaineer, George Mallory, turned away from the Icefall in ...
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Just when Nepal’s climbing industry was recovering from last year’s deadly avalanche on Mount Everest, another avalanche triggered by last month’s earthquake killed 19 people, ...