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A Personal Letter to Everest 2016, and 2017, Summiteers

“I want to climb Everest, but there is so much negative press about it. I don’t want to add to the problems.”, […]

Christine, 84 years young came up to me after a recent talk I gave on my K2 summit in 2014, both a […]

Everest 2016 was a success by many measures. Climbers achieved life long dreams and a country got a break. It was a ‘normal’ […]

Welcome to Alan Arnette’s Everest 2016 coverage My annual coverage is based on my own summit and climb experiences, research, sources, and […]

It appears the Everest 2016 season is over with the base camps on the Nepal and Tibet side becoming ghost towns. I will […]

Why do people die on Mount Everest? That is the question many people are asking this Monday after three deaths were reported […]

I am passing this along from Arnold Coster, owner of Arnold Coster Expeditions. This past weekend two climbers on his team died […]

The summits continued on Saturday morning, 21 May 2016 on both sides of Everest. However, there were two deaths on the Nepal […]

The final summit pushes continue on the Nepal side while it feels like everyone on the Tibet side is going for the summit […]

After 202 climbers summited the morning on 19 May, another couple of hundred will continue tonight looking at 20 May for their […]