K2 and Everest Winter Efforts Gets Serious and a Death
Both the K2 and Everest teams have established a base camp and touched their mountains. In other news sadly a death on […]
Tag: Everest
Winter K2 and Everest Progress to Base Camp
The Polish K2 team is trekking up the Baltoro Glacier and should be at K2 base camp around 8/9 January and the […]
K2 and Everest Winter Teams on the Move
The Polish K2 team is now in Pakistan and the Everest team in the Khumbu. It will be weeks before they begin […]
Everest by the Numbers: 2019 Edition
For those who follow Everest closely, the arrival of the official summit numbers is always a milestone. The Himalayan Database (HDB) updated the latest […]
How Much Does it Cost to Climb Mount Everest? – 2018 Edition
“How much does it cost to climb Mount Everest?” The short answer is a car or at least $30,000 but most people pay […]
Nepal to Ban All Solo Climbers and those with Disabilities – a Political Move
I was hoping we could go into the Everest 2018 season without Nepal’s Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation announcing another […]
Avoiding Death on Everest
94 paying members have died on Everest between 1996 and 2016. Who were they, why did they die, who were they climbing […]
Everest: 4 Weeks, Unlimited Oxygen, $117,000
For several years, I have been writing about the bifurcation of the Everest guiding business. In other words, the separation between the […]
Everest and K2 in the Winter
Will there be a winter summit of Everest and finally on K2 this winter? This is always a question as we approach […]
Everest 2017: Adventure Consultant’s Guy Cotter on ‘Fixing Everest’
As the guiding universe explodes with seemingly anybody and everybody jumping in, there are a handful of global companies that simply take […]