Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sherpa team in charge of opening a route through Everest's Khumbu Icefall is about to begin their annual high-risk job. A team ...

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The Khumbu Icefall—a chaotic tumble of ice blocks, towers, and crevasses between the Western Cwm and Base Camp—is always among the most dangerous obstacles climbers face on Everest. Each year, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this May 18, 2003 file photo, mountaineers pass through the treacherous Khumbu Icefall on their way to Mount Everest ...

A Sherpa guide whose family had already begun funeral rituals after he vanished on Mount Everest was found alive and crawling toward base camp nearly a week later, surviving alone on the world's ...

After eight days of delays, mounting institutional pressure, and a week that tested the nerves of hundreds of climbers stranded at Base Camp, a joint team of mountain guides and icefall doctors ...

The route through the Khumbu Icefall on Mt Everest has been opened for the Spring 2026 climbing season, though significant risks remain at a critical section, the Sagarmatha Pollution Control ...

The Khumbu Icefall is widely regarded as the most dangerous section of the standard South Col route to Qomolangma. Stretching ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NEW DELHI — On Everest, everybody knows that the Khumbu Icefall is dangerous. They’ve known it for generations, since the first great Everest mountaineer, ...

Percy Fernandez is the expedition photographer with the Indian NCC Everest 2013 team. Founder of Mountain Adventures, he is an outdoor educator and helps design and implement outdoor learning ...