About two dozen climbers were directly in the path of the avalanche, and many others were at the margins above and below. At 6:45 a.m. Kurt Hunter, the Everest Base Camp manager of Madison ...

Nepal plans to raise Mount Everest climbing permit fees from $11,000 to $15,000, impacting climbers worldwide.

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more ...

Pemba Tshering Sherpa, who survived Friday's avalanche on Mount Everest, describes his experience on the mountain that day. Photo: Narendra Shrestha for The Wall Street Journal ...

And these are typical conditions on the world’s highest mountain: Mount Everest. The behemoth towers ... the world’s highest mountain, after an avalanche killed 12 Sherpa guides.

A Mount Everest avalanche last week that killed 16 Sherpas — professional Nepalese mountaineers paid to assist recreational climbers — caps off the worst three-year period for Sherpas in ...

While there are a few things you can do if caught in an avalanche to make your chances of survival better, the remote nature of Mount Everest makes avalanche rescue difficult. Together ...

Just before reaching the summit of Mount Everest, Australian engineer Jason ... according to The Himalayan Database. An avalanche in 2014 killed 16 people, in what is considered the worst accident ...

The avalanche destroyed the Everest base camp ... Jost Kobusch Altimeter reading breaking record at his highest climb on Mount Everest's West Ridge. / Jost Kobusch Kobusch plans to continue ...

For those who want to climb Mount Everest the fee will be $15,000 during the peak season, up 36% from its $11,000 fee, the BBC reported. If you climb outside of the peak season, it will still be a 36% ...

Eleven people have died climbing Mount Everest this spring, in what has become the peak's deadliest climbing sprint in recent memory. In 2015, an avalanche roared through Everest, killing at least ...

Nepal lies in a seismically active zone where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates converge, giving rise to the Himalayas and frequent earthquakes.