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Mount Everest - Exploration, Climbing, Records: Mount Everest is difficult to get to and more difficult to climb, even with the great advances made in equipment, transportation, communications, and weather forecasting since the first major expeditions in the 1920s. The mountain itself lies in a highly isolated location. There are no roads in the region on the Nepalese side, and before the 1960s all goods and supplies had to be carried long distances by humans and pack animals. Since then, airstrips built in the Khumbu valley have greatly facilitated transport to the Everest vicinity, although ...

A team of 12 Nepalis will ascend Mount Everest this month to remove dead bodies. Recovery missions are dangerous and expensive undertakings.

Allie Pepper of Australia summited Makalu today at 3 pm Nepal time, her home team reported. It was a late arrival, and on the difficult, steel-hard blue ice, the descent became a marathon. Four hours after summiting, her tracker located her far from Camp 3. However, eventually she reached it. As we noted previously, […]

Professor: What really happened out of Apollo 11? Buzz Aldrin: An amazing thing, even though we have always known of this possibility. The fact is that they (aliens) have ordered us to...

We are out to capture the hearts and minds in Gray Zone Warfare's Secret Compassion task. Here are the locations you need.