Joy, pain and an uncomfortable truth at the heart of every climber’s story - IN FOCUS: It’s an extreme adventure playground that is there for the conquering – but increasingly, there are distressing ...

The quake caught him in his tent at Camp 1 on Everest, midway between the Khumbu Glacier and the Lho La. He called ExplorersWeb right after arriving back in town, unharmed but "a bit shaken." ...

Twenty-four hours after winter officially began, Jost Kobusch moved from the Everest Pyramid weather station onto the Khumbu Glacier to begin his solo Everest expedition. The German is currently ...

Kobusch's location at Advanced Base Camp on the Khumbu Glacier at noon today. Later, his position moved up to Camp 1. Graph by InfinityMaps After that first successful outing, Kobusch remained in ...

The United Nations declared 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation to promote awareness about the role of glaciers, snow and ice.

The camp, used by up to 1,500 people in the spring climbing season, is situated on the rapidly thinning Khumbu glacier. A new site is to be found at a lower altitude, where there is no year-round ...