A team of researchers is making final preparations for a trip to Mount Everest in Nepal next month to explore why the ice of ...

If the researchers acquire the data they hope to they say it will be "the first of its kind". The post Scientists exploring ...

A team of researchers is making final preparations for a trip to Mount Everest in Nepal next month to explore why the ice of one of the mountain’s most iconic glaciers is so close to the melting point ...

The Sherpa Ice Doctors who find the route through Everest's dangerous Khumbu Icefall will not have to hunt for a safe way by ...

An eight-member ‘icefall doctor’ team left for Everest Base Camp to fix climbing routes up to Camp 2 led by Ang Sarki Sherpa. Icefall doctors conduct a survey of the glacier and fix ladders and ropes ...

As the Nepali officials were leaving, the glacier on the west shoulder calved again, and a small avalanche rumbled into the icefall precisely where the 16 men had died. Many took it as the final ...

KATHMANDU: With the start of main climbing season, an eight-member team of icefall doctors today left for the Mt Everest base camp from Namche Bazaar to fix a climbing route up to Camp II in the ...

The iconic and massive glacier descends from the Western Cwm - a broad, U-shaped valley located above it. Constantly in motion, the Icefall presents one of the most dynamic and dangerous sections ...