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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 ...

If the new drug iloprost had been available when my team was on Everest, I could have saved more of their fingers and toes.

Horrified Wester Ross communities – and major heritage, outdoors and nature trusts – have called for an end to an ill-thought out mobile masts policy.

A top climber defended walking past a dying Sherpa in pursuit of a climbing record this week, but in fact this is all too common

A top climber defended walking past a dying Sherpa in pursuit of a climbing record.