People climbing Everest will now have to clean up their faeces and take them back to base camp for disposal, the BBC reports. “Our mountains have started to stink,” said Mingma Sherpa, chairman of Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality. A municipality that covers most of the region...

All eight tourists who tried to climb the Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano in Kamchatka died, the BBC reports. Two guides continue to wait for help from rescuers at an altitude of more than 4 thousand meters (two more tourists are in the camp lower down the slope). Rescuers need more than a day...

Jackson Houlding and his sister Freya will either inspire you or make you think about what you have achieved today, Travel + Leasure writes. In July, Leo Houlding's children became world record holders after climbing the summit of Mount Piz Badile, a 10-foot (000 km peak) that ...

On May 27, 62-year-old lawyer Christopher Kulish of Boulder, Colorado, died in a camp while descending Mount Everest. His death was another in a series of tragic deaths of climbers: in 3 months more people died in the Himalayas than in the entire previous one ...

A climber from Ryazan died while climbing Elbrus, reports the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for Kabardino-Balkaria. “A tourist in a group of five people from Ryazan fell onto the rocks from a height of 5,3 thousand meters (the saddle of Mount Elbrus), receiving injuries incompatible with...

An avalanche on Everest caused by a strong earthquake on April 25 killed 65 climbers. According to Nepalese officials, there were at least 1 climbers in the Everest base camps, including about 400 foreigners. A video of the moment of the avalanche on Everest, which arose due to the strongest ...