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Aydin Irmak, who tried to summit Mt. Everest with a commuter bike, at base camp in 2012. (By Grayson Schaffer) Grayson Schaffer, senior editor at Outside magazine, wrote “The Disposable Man: A Western History of Sherpas on Everest” in the August issue. Since this month’s avalanche, he has been working ...

When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the top of Mount Everest in 1953, it was arguably the loneliest place on Earth — an oxygen-deprived desert perched atop an icy, 29,000-foot ladder of death. Over the last 62 years, more than 4,000 climbers have replicated the pair’s feat, with ...

It’s a universal fact that climbing Mount Everest in Nepal is one of the most dangerous bucket-list goals in the world. But that danger got even more extreme last year, when the deadliest ice collapse in Everest history killed 16 Sherpa guides. And fortunately, Nepal is acting accordingly. In March, ...

Nepal is a beautiful country with never ending stunning landscapes, charismatic mountains and mesmerizing lakes. Nepal is one of the finest country with wide prospect of development in technology and tourism sectors. With wide variety of flora and fauna in the country, Nepal beholds some of the rarest species like the ...

Title 10 of the world’s most amazing long-distance trails  (The Great Himalayan Trail) Great Himalayan Trail (Nepal) Distance: 1,700 kilometers (1,056 miles) In a word: ambitious. Still being put together, when finished, this 4,500 kilometer (2,796 mile) sky scraping traverse will be the longest and highest mountain trail in the ...