Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earlier today, a huge serac collapsed in Everest's Khumbu Icefall. No one was injured, but the shifting ice destroyed some of the ...

Our Everest expert answers ten simple questions about the 2026 climbing season, and why it was delayed by the Khumbu Icefall.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

Mount Everest’s climbing season has opened weeks late after a massive cracked serac stalled progress through the Khumbu ...

Dawa Jangbu Sherpa is one of 11 elite doctors who monitor the perilous slopes of Mount Everest. But he isn’t there to address medical emergencies — the mountain itself is his patient.

Climbing season on Mount Everest has yet to kick off and already there’s been a potentially deadly disaster. According to reports in The Himalayan Times and website Everest Chronicle, three Sherpa ...

At approximately 6:45 a.m. on April 18, 2014, a block of ice tumbled from the edge of a hanging glacier onto a popular climbing route on the south face of Mount Everest. The ice, which weighed as much ...