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 ...

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 ...

2015 avalanche video goes viral This was the second time that Kobusch has experienced an earthquake on Mount Everest. In April 2015, a devastating quake in Nepal triggered an avalanche from the ...

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 ...

As of September, everyone on the mountain must be accompanied by an expert guide, improving safety but potentially ...

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 ...

Their goal was to ascertain if a route to the summit of Mount Everest could be found ... the team triggered an avalanche from the laden slopes of the North Col. Seven Sherpa porters were killed ...

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

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

The avalanche destroyed the Everest base camp ... for his future attempts at completing a solo winter ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen.