Mount Everest

Mount Everest

Mount Everest or Sagarmatha (top), highest peak in the world with an altitude of 8.848 metres (29.028 ft) is seen in this aerial view next to 6.812 metres (22.349 feet) high Mount Ama Dablam (bottom R) April 22, 2007. File Photo: Reuters

Mount Everest sees record-breaking 274 ascents in one day

On 22 May 2019, a combined 336 climbers reached the summit — 223 from Nepal’s side and 113 from Tibet.

Kami Rita. Photo: AP via UNB

Nepali Sherpa scales Mount Everest for a record 32nd time

Members of an expedition team hike at Khumbu Icefall, as the route to Mount Everest Camp One has not yet been opened for the season in Solukhumbu district, also known as the Everest region, Nepal, April 22, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Purnima Shrestha

Giant ice tower delays opening of Everest climbing route

Mount Everest or Sagarmatha (top), highest peak in the world with an altitude of 8.848 metres (29.028 ft) is seen in this aerial view next to 6.812 metres (22.349 feet) high Mount Ama Dablam (bottom R) April 22, 2007. File Photo: Reuters

Mount Everest climbers allegedly 'poisoned' by guides in $19.69m insurance scam

Tibetan firefighters rescue trekkers from Everest after they were stranded by a blizzard, in Tingri, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, in this screen grab taken from a video released on October 6, 2025. Photo: Tibet Firefighting Department/Handout via REUTERS

All stranded Everest hikers evacuated from remote Tibetan valley

Villagers with their oxen and horses ascend the mountain during rescue efforts to reach hundreds of hikers trapped by heavy snow at tourist campsites on a slope of Mount Everest. Photo: AP

Rescue efforts underway to save over 200 hikers trapped after Everest snowstorm

A screen capture from video shows trekkers leaving their campsite, as unusually heavy snow and rainfall pummeled the Himalayas, in the Tibet Region, China, October 5, 2025. Photo: Geshuang Chen/Handout via REUTERS

Hundreds of trekkers escape from blizzard-struck Everest in Tibet

The summit of the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest, also known as Qomolangma, is covered in cloud, 8 May 2008. Photo: Reuters

Almost 1,000 trapped on Tibetan side of Mount Everest by blizzard

Mountaineers practice walking on a ladder during a training session at Everest base camp, Nepal April 15, 2025. Photo: Reuters

Nepal waives climbing fees for some peaks to lure mountaineers

Kami Rita Sherpa, 53, a Nepali mountaineer, waves towards the media personnel upon his arrival after climbing Mount Everest for the 28th time, creating a new record for the most summits of the world’s highest mountain, in Kathmandu, Nepal May 25, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar/File Photo

Nepali Sherpa scales Mount Everest for a record 31st time

Initially aiming to complete his “Sea to Summit” journey within 90 days, Shakil beat his own deadline, becoming the seventh Bangladeshi to stand atop the world’s highest peak. Photo: Courtesy

Beyond the Horizon: Shakil’s record-breaking trek from Cox’s Bazar to Everest

Ikramul Hasan Shakil at the Base Camp of Mount Everest. Photo: Collected from Shakil's official Facebook page

From sea to summit: Shakil walks from Cox's Bazar to conquer Everest

British climber Kenton Cool, 49, waves towards the media personnel, upon his arrival at the airport, as he returns after completing his 17th ascent of Mount Everest, which is the most by any foreign climber, in Kathmandu, Nepal May 19, 2023. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar/File Photo

British climber makes 19th ascent of Everest, most by a non-Sherpa