The Latest Breaking News from Everest

Weak climbers being led up Mount Everest by expedition operators with insufficient experience are causing problems, a veteran mountain guide said on Sunday, after one of the deadliest climbing seasons in years on the world's highest mountain.

Food wrappers, tents, plastic and human waste being discarded by climbers staying at the mountain's base camps.

A Nepali sherpa carried a stricken stranger for six hours 1,900ft down Mount Everest after finding the man dangling in the “death zone”.

Astonishing footage has emerged of a sherpa's "almost impossible" rescue of a stricken climber from near the summit of Mount Everest.

The sherpa was guiding another client to the Everest summit on May 18 when he noticed the unnamed climber clinging to a rope and shivering from the freezing temperatures

Gelje Sherpa found the Malaysian hanging from a rope in an area where temperatures can dip below minus 30C.

‘I feel so sad every time,’ he said

(This May 31 story has been refiled to fix the temperature to -22F, instead of 88F, in paragraph 2)

Seventy years after Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hilary became the first people to scale Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain was filmed covered in piles of rubbish left by climbers

Nepal’s head of tourism says variable weather on the mountain has led to one of the deadliest years on record

A renowned U.S. mountain guide, who recently achieved the rare feat of climbing Mount Everest and two nearby peaks in less than three weeks, said on Tuesday Nepal needs to do a better job of policing the world's highest mountain to save it from garbage.