(Canadian Press) - Nepalese veteran mountaineer Apa Sherpa, who has climbed Everest a record 20 times, waves to supporters at the airport before leaving for Mount Everest on an expedition to clear away tons of trash left on the world’s highest ... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - An aerial view the Mount Everest range some 140 km (87 miles) northeast of Kathmandu on January 14. Fifteen Nepalese civil servants will soon abandon their desks for the slopes of Everest to improve government understanding of the challe... [Full Article]
(Canadian Press) - FILE - This Oct. 21, 2005 file photo shows Mount Everest from an aerial view taken over Nepal. Climbers attempting to scale the world’s highest peak now have access to high-speed Internet near its 17,000-foot (5,200-meter) ba... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - Mount Everest seen from The Kalapattar Plateau. Climbers who reached Everest's 8,848-metre peak previously depended on expensive and erratic satellite phone coverage and a voice-only network set up by China Mobile in 2007 on the Chin... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - File picture shows climbers heading to the summit of Mount Everest. Climbers at the top of the world's highest peak, will now be able to make video calls and surf the Internet on their mobile phones, a Nepalese telecom group claims.(... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - This photograph taken in 2009 shows a glacier in the Everest region some 140 km (87 miles) northeast of Kathmandu. A UN-ordered review said Monday that the global panel on climate change needed to "fundamentally reform" how it ... [Full Article]
(AFP/HIMEX) - In this photograph provided by Tenzing-Hillary Everest Marathon organiser Himex, participants compete in the eighth edition of the race at Everest base camp in Solukhumbu district some of 140 kilometer northeast of Kathmandu. More than ... [Full Article]
(AFP/AEE-HO/File) - This Altitude Everest Expedition(AEE) 2007 handout shows the advance base camp of the world's tallest 8,848 metre (29,198 feet) high Mount Everest at 6,400 metres above the sea level. More than 200 climbers reached the summit ... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - An Australian adventurer will set out to solve Mount Everest's greatest mystery this week by searching for long-lost evidence that the peak was conquered in 1924, 29 years earlier than previously thought.(AFP/File/Prakash Mathema)... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - A glacier in the Everest region some 140 km (87 miles) northeast of Kathmandu. The head of the United Nations' climate change panel Rajendra Pachauri, has defended the body before an academic council charged with reviewing its resear... [Full Article]