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Mount Everest holidays

June 2024

  • 'I stay positive’ … Lhakpa Sherpa.

    ‘My heart does not have any other job’: Lhakpa Sherpa, the record-breaking Nepalese climber who cleans houses in Connecticut

    Lucy Walker’s critically acclaimed documentary, Mountain Queen, follows the remarkable woman who had to pretend to be a boy to secure her first job in the Himalayas – and hasn’t stopped fighting since

April 2020

  • Virtual Everest Base Camp

    Trekking to Everest base camp – by climbing the stairs at home

    Virtual expedition team ascends 5,364 metres over five days in indoor mountain climbing challenge

September 2019

  • The Boxing Glove stones on the northern edge of the Kinder Scout plateau in the Peak District

    Hit the heights of Everest – in England

    Climbing the roof of the world is beyond most of us, so one man set out to scale his own personal Everest at home, breaking down 8,848 metres into 12 stages, starting on a Cornish hill and peaking on Scafell Pike

May 2019

  • Peter Beaumont

    Why I won’t be joining the queue at the top of Everest

    Peter Beaumont
    A startling picture of overcrowding near the summit shows the peril of turning the mountain into a form of adventure tourism

October 2017

  • Sunrise over the Swayambhunath temple, with monkey on ramparts.

    Why I love …
    ‘Kathmandu is still a place of magic’: Sir Chris Bonington

    Despite much change, the Nepalese capital’s staggering views and warm memories are as vivid as ever for the veteran mountaineer and leader of 19 Himalayan expeditions

April 2017

  • Base Camp beneath Everest, where hopeful climbers wait before making their attempt on the summit.

    Before the ascent: postcards from Everest

    Waiting to summit Everest gives mountaineers time for introspection. Artist Derek Eland travelled to Base Camp to ask those on their way up to write down their hopes and fears

August 2016

  • Everest base camp with the tents of the group we interviewed in the foreground

    On Everest: meet the people scaling the world's highest peak

    It’s been described as ‘high altitude roulette’, and claimed 19 lives in last year’s earthquake. So why do it? Photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer find out

January 2016

  • Mira Rai

    Why I love …
    Nepal’s Himalayas – the battleground and training zone for Mira Rai

    The ultra-runner started her career as an athlete in Nepal when she was a child soldier. Now she’s an international star and national hero

January 2015

  • Nepal, Kathmandu, Swayambhunath, View of city

    Why I love …
    Climber and guide Kenton Cool on Kathmandu, Nepal

  • Lobuche memorial site Everest

    Sherpa families angry and fearful eight months on from Everest disaster

September 2014

  • Everest base camp after a heavy snow fall in the Khumbu region, Nepal.

    Travel writing competition 2013
    Trekking to Everest base camp: readers’ travel writing competition

    Alexei Vink, winner in the adventure category, tested himself on a trek through the Nepalese Himalayas to Everest base camp in Nepal

July 2014

  • Everest base camp trek: Mount Everest from Kala Patthar

    Mount Everest trek: the go-slow guide to base camp – with a fast ride home

  • Everest base camp trek: mani stones on the path to Phakding

    Everest base camp trek: eight days to the top of the world — in pictures

April 2014

  • Climbers approaching the Hillary Step just below the summit of Everest

    Everest's Sherpas fear for livelihood after killer avalanche

  • Mount Everest rescue operation

    Sherpas abandon Everest climbing season after deadly avalanche

March 2014

  • Climbers on summit of Mount Everest. Long, angry queues can form at peak season with two hour waits

    Nepal to station officials at Mt Everest base camp to control crowds of tourists

  • A Nepalese sherpa picks up rubbish left by climbers on Mount Everest

    A bypass for Everest: Nepal seeks to lure climbers to alternative mountains

December 2013

  • An arctic fox

    National Geographic's Best Travel Photos 2013 - in pictures

    National Geographic has picked 10 of the most stunning travel images from 2013

May 2013

  • A female trekker trekking in the Everest region

    Trekking in the Himalayas: how to do it

  • Everest sherpas cross log bridge, Western Cwm

    The first successful ascent of Everest 60 years ago – in pictures

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