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The Price to Climb Mount Everest Will Rise to $15,000 This Year
Every year, hundreds of mountaineers try to reach the top of Mount Everest, the 29,032-foot-tall peak on the border of Nepal ...
Prolific Everest climber visits Colorado’s growing Sherpa community
Ngima Nuru Sherpa is small in stature, but he stands tall in the annals of Mount Everest. The 5-foot-7, 150-pound native of ...
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Daredevil climbers banned from ascending Mount Everest without support
As of September, everyone on the mountain must be accompanied by an expert guide, improving safety but potentially ...
Double amputee tests new prosthetics for next climb
A double amputee who climbed Mount Everest is helping to design new prosthetics as he looks to complete the seven summits.
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How climbers could tackle Everest in a WEEK - thanks to a controversial gas that's banned in professional sport
In 2014, the World Anti-Doping Agency added xenon to the list of banned substances ... to provide xenon for a single climber to pre-acclimatise. Mount Everest is turning into the world’s highest ...
Nepal increases Mount Everest climbing fee to $15,000
Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more ...
Fees to climb Everest are about to get a lot more expensive. One veteran says that won't keep people off the mountain.
The cost of a permit to ascend Everest will soon hit as much as $15,000, but a veteran climber says the increase won't keep ...