2019/20 Winter Himalaya Climbs: Broad Peak Summit Push Stopped
The Karakorum continues to play tough. Yesterday the only team on K2 quickly flew out ending their effort and today the Broad […]
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2019/20 Winter Himalaya Climbs:K2 Winter OVER, Broad Peak Summit Push Underway
Huge news that Mingma Gyalje Sherpa‘s Imagine Nepal has ended its K2 winter effort. The reasons remain vague. The team flew back […]
How Much Does it Cost to Climb Mount Everest? – 2020 Edition
Quick 2021 Everest Update In 2019, China increased permit fees for all their 8000ers. Nepal was expected to as well but the […]
Everest: Nepal Looking at Huge Permit Fee Increase
Its been rumored for the past two years that Nepal will increase the permit fee to climb Everest from the current $11,000 […]
Everest 2019: Season Summary The Year Everest Broke
Everest 2019 will go down as the year Everest finally broke. It was one of those seasons where a lot of things […]
Everest 2019: Team Locations and Headlines
LATEST HEADLINE May 31: Season Over 11 Everest Deaths, 900 estimated total summits Welcome to the 2019 edition of Alan Arnette’s annual coverage of the […]
Everest 2019: Welcome to Everest 2019 Coverage
Welcome to the kick-off for my Everest 2019 coverage! I have already posted a few articles on 2019 and am actively covering the […]
How Much Does it Cost to Climb Mount Everest? – 2019 Edition
This is my sixth year to blog “How much does it cost to climb Mount Everest?” and I firmly believe we are […]
China Clamps Down on Everest Climbs
Over the past few years, I’ve been predicting two things will change dramatically about climbing Everest: 1) It will get more expensive […]
Nepal Guide Fined and Climbers Sentenced to Jail for forged Everest Permits
News broke in July, 2018 that Sherpa owned and operated guide company, Seven Summits Treks (SST), had forged Everest climbing permits for […]