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NASA spots Martian volcano twice the height of Mount Everest bursting through the morning clouds: Space photo of the week

A new panorama from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter shows Arsia Mons, one of the largest volcanoes on Mars, rising above a thick blanket of clouds before dawn.

LiveScience

After record-breaking Everest climbers revealed they use hypoxic tents to get altitude ready without acclimatizing on the mountain, we look at how the technology works

Hypoxic tents are used by climbers to prepare for the dizzying effects of altitude atop the world's tallest mountains

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Nepal's mountaineering community marks 72 years since conquest of Everest summit

Nepal contains eight of the highest peaks in the world and every year hundreds of foreign climbers fly to the country in South Asia to tackle the mountains.

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Nepal's mountaineering community celebrates 72nd anniversary of Mount Everest conquest

Nepal’s mountaineering community has celebrated the 72nd anniversary of the conquest of the world’s highest peak

The Independent UK

Doubts raised over Chinese paraglider’s claim of accidental 8,000-metre flight

Peng Yujiang says updraft took him nearly as high as Mount Everest but parts of flight video appear to be AI-generated

The Guardian - UK

AP PHOTOS: Hundreds scale Mount Everest in a weather-hit climbing season

Hundreds of climbers and their Sherpa guides scaled Mount Everest this month in Nepal, struggling against harsh weather to make it to the summit of the world's highest mountain before the climbing season finishes at the end of May.

The Independent UK

‘Disrespectful to Everest’: Nepal vows to protect Himalayas from overcrowding and climate change

11 tonnes of garbage, four dead bodies and a skeleton were removed from Everest during the last climbing season.

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Nepali breaks world record with 31st summit of Mount Everest

Kami Rita, a 55-year-old Sherpa known as “Everest Man”, first climbed the world’s highest mountain in 1994.

Al Jazeera

Nepal vows to keep Himalayas safe and clean as it hosts conference for Everest climbers

Nepal pledged to support mountaineering and keep climbers safe as it welcomed many of those who have scaled Mount Everest to an event recognising their achievement

The Independent UK

Nepal’s ‘Everest Man’ summits world’s tallest mountain for record 31st time

Famed Sherpa mountain guide climbs Mount Everest for 31st time, extending his record

The Independent UK

Renowned Everest guide defends controversial use of xenon gas in record climbs

The use of xenon gas treatment has drawn controversy

The Independent UK

Who are the Everest sherpas and what do they do? We look at the often unsung heroes behind some of the world's most famous mountaineers

People who live in the Nepalese mountains have been guiding foreign climbers up the world's tallest mountain since the 1920s. We take a closer look at their vital role in these high-risk expeditions

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Race from sea level: British Xenon gas climbers summit Everest in just five days, but now US national claims to have done it in less than four

It took the Army veterans just five days to get from London to the summit of the world's tallest mountain; but now Andrew Ushakov claims to have reached the top of the mountain even faster

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British climbers first to scale Mount Everest using new method

Their climb is one of the fastest ascents on record of the world’s highest peak

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“Black rocky hills have started to appear” - Experts witness the devastating toll of climate change on Mount Everest in eye-opening fly-by

Scientists and Nepali lawmakers spotted a drastic reduction in snow-coverage on the Himalayan peaks

The Independent UK

A renowned mountain guide puts clients on Everest summit less than a week after they left London

An expert mountain guide has put four of his clients on top of Mount Everest less than a week after they left London, one of the fastest ascents on record of the world’s highest peak

The Independent UK

Survivor of Mount Everest avalanche that killed thousands remembers moment of terror

He plans to scale 446 mountains across England and Wales in 50 days for charity

The Independent UK

This British climber has climbed Mount Everest 19 times. Now he wants to do it again

The 51-year-old scaled the 8,849-metre (29,032-foot) peak on Sunday along with several other climbers

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Record-setting British climber says he will scale Everest again next year, targeting his 20th summit

A British climber who scaled Mount Everest for the 19th time, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world’s highest peak by a non-Sherpa guide, says he is already planning his next attempt

The Independent UK

Indian and Romanian climbers die on Nepal’s Mount Lhotse during Himalayan spring climbing season

Deaths bring this spring’s toll in the Himalayas to at least eight, including two on Mount Everest

The Independent UK

British climber sets new record with 19th Everest summit, the most by a non-Sherpa

Kenton Cool broke his own record to climb the world’s highest mountain

The Independent UK

Expedition organizers say 2 climbers have died on Mount Everest

An Indian and a Filipino climber have died while climbing Mount Everest as hundreds more are attempting to scale the world's highest peak

The Independent UK

Why you’ve probably never heard of the first woman to summit Everest

ANALYSIS: She reached the peak 50 years ago this week, but there are few anniversary celebrations, writes Jenny Hall

The Conversation

Fifty years ago, Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Everest – why do so few people know her story?

It was May 4 1975. The Japanese Women’s Everest Expedition team had been living at a high altitude for six weeks, and were less than a week away from their scheduled bid for the summit of Mount Everest. Exhausted, having established camp five at just below 8,000m on the south…

Evening Standard

Former Royal Marine completes ‘world’s longest triathlon’ at Everest summit

Mitch Hutchcraft set off from Dover last September and reached the summit of Mount Everest on Sunday.

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