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Kilian Jornet climbing Mount Everest

Catalan climber tops Mount Everest twice in one week

Sports

Kilian Jornet says his second climb in a week “opens up a new realm of possibilities in alpinism and I’m really happy to have done it.”

An Aymara indigenous woman practices climbing on the Huayna Potosi mountain, Bolivia April 2016.

Casting aside imposing summits, these women are scaling Bolivia’s peaks in their traditional ‘cholita’ clothing

Culture
Mt. Everest, the world's highest mountain, is seen from the viewing point at Lukla in northern Nepal.

Mount Everest has a problem — with poop

Environment

When you call someone a Sherpa, what does that mean?

Lifestyle & Belief

When you call someone a Sherpa, what does that mean?

Lifestyle & Belief
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Many Sherpas are going home to give Mount Everest ‘a rest’

Environment

There’s a debate on the mountain this week, as Sherpas decide whether to continue climbing or leave for their homes after last week’s avalanche. PRI’s The World talks with the son of one of the most famous Sherpa mountaineers.

Many Sherpas are going home to give Mount Everest ‘a rest’

Environment

There’s a debate on the mountain this week, as Sherpas decide whether to continue climbing or leave for their homes after last week’s avalanche. PRI’s The World talks with the son of one of the most famous Sherpa mountaineers.

The father of Kaji Sherpa, one of 13 Nepali mountaineering guides who lost his life in an avalanche on Mount Everest, comforts his grandson as he waits for the body of his son to arrive at Sherpa Monastery in Kathmandu April 19, 2014.

Almost no one goes up Mount Everest — without a Sherpa

Business, Economics and Jobs

Mount Everest climbs depend on Sherpa guides — the Nepali ethnic group renowned for years for leading teams of climbers up the world’s highest mountain peak. But a deadly avalanche last week has some Sherpas calling for better conditions — or at least greater rewards.Mount Everest climbs depend on Sherpa guides — the Nepali ethnic group renowned for years for leading teams of climbers up the world’s highest mountain peak. But a deadly avalanche last week has some Sherpas calling for better conditions — or at least greater rewards.

Climber calls for stricter rules after three die, two go missing on Mount Everest

Three people are dead and two people are missing after a particularly dangerous weekend on Mount Everest. This is the very narrow time-period when climbing to the summit is possible, and with increasing commercialization it’s becoming more popular. But some expert climbers say that’s incredibly dangerous.

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First Indian Woman on Everest Aids Himalayan Flood Relief Efforts

Almost 30 years after being the first Indian woman to scale Mt. Everest, Bachendri Pal is using her mountaineering skills to help villagers stranded by devastating floods high in the Indian Himalaya Mountains.

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