Climbers on Mount Everest are celebrating after more than a week of successful summit expeditions, made possible by an unusually long period of good weather. A spokesperson with the Nepal Department of Tourism told Outside that approximately 450 mountaineers made it to the world’s highest point between Saturday, May 7, and Sunday, May 15. According to […]
“A queen among the Sherpa people,” is how mountaineer Dave Watson described Lhakpa Sherpa in Grayson Schaffer’s 2016 Outside feature story on the Nepali alpinist. While Lhakpa may not be an actual monarch in her home country, she is royalty among mountaineers on Mount Everest. On Thursday the 48-year-old completed her tenth trip to the […]
On Thursday morning, seven climbers and eight Nepali guides from the Full Circle Everest expedition celebrated on the summit of Mount Everest. Their successful climb pens a new chapter into the 60-year history of the world’s highest peak. Full Circle is the first expedition comprised completely of Black climbers. Expedition operator Jiban Ghmire of Shangri-La […]
Portuguese climber Pedro Queirós says he stopped speaking to God 20 or 30 years ago. But on Monday night, as Queirós trudged through hurricane-force winds toward the summit of Mount Everest, he restarted his dormant conversation with a higher power. “I was asking God ‘please stop the wind,’” Queirós told Outside. “If it was just a […]
On Monday, alpinist Adrian Ballinger completed the first recorded ski descent from the true summit of 27,766-foot Makalu, the world’s fifth-highest mountain. Ballinger, along with his climbing partners Dorji Sonam Sherpa and Pasang Sherpa, reached the peak’s summit on Monday at 9 A.M. amid whiteout conditions. They were the first team to reach Makalu’s summit […]
There’s been another fatality on the world’s highest peak. On Sunday, Nepali officials confirmed the death of Russian climber Pavel Kostrikin, 55, on the slopes of Mount Everest. According to multiple reports, Kostrikin collapsed and died of altitude sickness on Saturday evening at Camp I, which is located at 17,585 feet. He had been completing […]
As a major storm forms over the Bay of Bengal, mountaineers at Mount Everest Base Camp are beginning their attempts to reach the summit in a short window of good weather that could close at any time. Currently, skies over the world’s highest peak are clear, however the Indian Meteorological Department is predicting that by […]
The spring climbing season in Nepal is just a few weeks old, and mountaineers are already reaching the top of the world’s highest peaks. On April 30, a team of 13 Chinese climbers reached the summit of Mount Everest to install a solar-powered weather station after ascending from Tibet. Across the border in Nepal, teams […]