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Everest 2018: Weekend Update May 20

A lot to cover from this week! Last weekend I started the update with “… this upcoming week will be like riding […]

UPDATE 1: Matt Moniz and Willie Benegas had to slow down and stop because they were climbing too fast otherwise they wold […]

Here we go for the fifth day in a row for Everest summits. Looks like the summit teams may have several inches […]

It was day four of Summit Central on #Everest2018 with more than 100 combined summits from both sides. Again the weather was holding […]

Calling their skiing down the Lhotse Face without a ski permit a “a very innocent mistake” Department of Tourism’s director general Dinesh […]

UPDATE 1: Nepal Madison Mountaineering put 3 guides, 5 members and 8 Sherpas up there. Climbing the Seven Summits had 100% success with 3 […]

What was a good day of summits turned tragic as a climber died on the descent on the Nepal side. There were […]

Teams are once again on the move from their high camps on the Tibet side and Nepal hoping to summit early Thursday […]

A Sherpa has died while over 140 people summited Everest on Wednesday morning, May 16. But a series of oxygen system failures […]

Everyone is safe, including guides, Sherpas, and members but there is a serious situation on the North side of Everest early Wednesday […]