A new study found that human waste and the fossil fuels used to power increasingly luxurious Everest Base Camp amenities are ...

Base camp temperatures increased about twice as fast as elsewhere on the glacier. The human footprint could be worse.

Urine trouble, Mount Everest. After standing the test of time for 50 million years, the world’s tallest mountain is under threat from an unlikely source — our pee. Urine deposited on glaciers is ...

Every spring, thousands of climbers turn Everest Base Camp into a small city - and their fuel use and waste are melting the glacier beneath their tents.

Everest Base Camp in Khumbu is a high-altitude staging place on the Khumbu Glacier, below the south side of Mount Everest.

Mount Everest, known as Mount Qomolangma in Chinese, straddles the border between China and Nepal.

The highest camp on the world’s tallest mountain is littered with garbage that is going to take years to clean up, according to a Sherpa who led a team that worked to clear trash and dig up dead ...

In his latest video dispatch, Ben Ayers explains what day-to-day life is like at Mount Everest Base Camp during the spring climbing season. There are a plethora of stories out there about the ...

Our Everest columnist shares some intel on how to avoid illness during the 11-day hike. Plus, a rest day adventure in the Himalayas Getting from Kathmandu to Lukla to start the hike to Mount Everest ...

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