Spring is go time for climbers who hope to summit Mount Everest, Earth's highest peak above sea level. Hundreds of ...

Mount Everest faces severe pollution due to trekking and mountaineering activities, turning it into the "world's highest ...

More than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest, according to Nepalese officials, so finding human remains on the mountain is not exactly uncommon. However, the discovery of a frozen ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Mount Everest is littered with an estimated 50 metric tons of waste, and each climber generates an average of 8 kilograms more. The Nepalese government spends $7.5 ...

Climbers attempting Mount Everest, the world's highest peak ... said use of such bags to manage human waste has been tried and tested on other mountains. "Mountaineers have been using such ...

Dead bodies are a common sight on top of Mount Everest ... the BBC reported. Other Everest climbers complain about risky human traffic jams in the mountain's so-called "death zone," the area ...

Authorities have resorted to the unusual move to deal with the mounting waste ... including human faeces and mountaineering equipment climbers had left behind. 'Everesting' on Mount Everest ...