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Mt Everest's Snow Cover Receded By 150 Metres This Winter, Show Satellite Images
A 'rising snow line' -- in which snow melts at lower heights, forcing the snow line boundary up a mountainside -- is suggestive of a warming climate.
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Climate Change And Thinning Ice Exposes Bodies Of Mountaineers On Everest
On Everest's sacred slopes, climate change is thinning snow and ice, increasingly exposing the bodies of hundreds of mountaineers who died chasing their dream to summit the world's highest mountain.
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Spectacular Image Of Snow Leopard Sitting Atop "Field Of Ice Pinnacles" Mesmerises Internet
The picture, shared on Instagram by US-based photographer Kittiya Pawlowski, showed a snow leopard sitting atop a "field of ice pinnacles called Phantom Alley" in Khumbu glacier in Nepal.
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Ang Rita Sherpa, 10-Time Everester, Who Was Known As 'Snow Leopard', Dies
Ang Rita Sherpa, the famous Himalayan climber, died on Monday. He was 72. Popularly known as 'Snow Leopard, Ang Rita Sherpa had won several awards as a an extremely successful climber. He received the Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal in 2011 for his efforts towards conservation of the fragile Himalayan ecology.
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After Everest "Traffic Jam", These Climbers Are Trying To Find New Route
There were no lines, no trash and no bodies to solemnly mark the route. It was quiet save for the sharp crunch of snow as two figures climbed along an untouched slope of Mount Everest. The scene stood in sharp contrast to social media and news reports detailing a single-file line of climbers stretching along the ridge line, increasingly high levels...
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Melting Glaciers Are Exposing Bodies Of Dead Climbers On Mount Everest
With the melting of glaciers and snow due to high temperatures, Mount Everest expedition operators are finding more and more bodies of climbers on and around the world's highest peak
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Mount Everest Getting Warmer, Glaciers Shrinking: Research
Mount Everest is getting warmer for the past 50 years with the glaciers around the world's highest peak shrinking "remarkably", according to a Chinese research. The glaciers in 8,844-metre-high Mt Everest, known as Mt Qomolangma in Tibet, have been shrinking "remarkably" swelling glacial lakes and rivers downstream, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hun...
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World's Highest Marathon Returns to Earthquake-Hit Everest
Dozens of runners donned snow goggles and braved icy temperatures to participate in the world's highest marathon in the foothills of Mount Everest today, five months after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated Nepal.
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Blog: Frozen Bodies, Snow Stained With Blood at Everest Base Camp
Eight months ago, I pitched an idea to film the journey to Mount Everest. When I discussed it with my colleagues, it seemed too big a project to take off, but to my surprise, the idea sounded great to our channel head, and she gave me the go-ahead.
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When an Avalanche Hit Everest Base Camp: Terrifying Moments on Camera
A deadly wall of snow, and then everything is covered in white. An ominous silence, then cries of terror. Terrifying moments after an avalanche struck a base camp at Mount Everest on Saturday have been caught on camera by German mountaineer Jost Kobusch.
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'Demons on The Mountain'; Survivors Recall Avalanche Terror
When Khile Sherpa opened his eyes, the snow around him was bright red, drenched with blood streaming from gashes in his body from the avalanche that catapulted him across Mount Everest's base camp at lunchtime on Saturday.
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Choppers Rescue Mount Everest Avalanche Victims
Helicopters airlifted injured climbers off Mount Everest today after an avalanche killed at least 17 people, an AFP team at the scene reported, as images of the disaster showed a terrifying cloud of snow roaring towards base camp.
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Nepalese Runner Wins World's Highest Marathon
Clad in trekking boots and snow goggles, more than 150 runners took part in the world's highest marathon in the foothills of Mount Everest on Thursday, passing yaks and monasteries along the snow-covered trail.
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13th body pulled from snow in Mount Everest avalanche
Search teams recovered a 13th body Saturday from the snow and ice covering a dangerous climbing pass on Mount Everest, where an avalanche a day earlier swept over a group of Sherpa guides in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak.
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Mt Everest's Snow Cover Receded By 150 Metres This Winter, Show Satellite Images
A 'rising snow line' -- in which snow melts at lower heights, forcing the snow line boundary up a mountainside -- is suggestive of a warming climate.
-
Climate Change And Thinning Ice Exposes Bodies Of Mountaineers On Everest
On Everest's sacred slopes, climate change is thinning snow and ice, increasingly exposing the bodies of hundreds of mountaineers who died chasing their dream to summit the world's highest mountain.
-
Spectacular Image Of Snow Leopard Sitting Atop "Field Of Ice Pinnacles" Mesmerises Internet
The picture, shared on Instagram by US-based photographer Kittiya Pawlowski, showed a snow leopard sitting atop a "field of ice pinnacles called Phantom Alley" in Khumbu glacier in Nepal.
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Ang Rita Sherpa, 10-Time Everester, Who Was Known As 'Snow Leopard', Dies
Ang Rita Sherpa, the famous Himalayan climber, died on Monday. He was 72. Popularly known as 'Snow Leopard, Ang Rita Sherpa had won several awards as a an extremely successful climber. He received the Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal in 2011 for his efforts towards conservation of the fragile Himalayan ecology.
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After Everest "Traffic Jam", These Climbers Are Trying To Find New Route
There were no lines, no trash and no bodies to solemnly mark the route. It was quiet save for the sharp crunch of snow as two figures climbed along an untouched slope of Mount Everest. The scene stood in sharp contrast to social media and news reports detailing a single-file line of climbers stretching along the ridge line, increasingly high levels...
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Melting Glaciers Are Exposing Bodies Of Dead Climbers On Mount Everest
With the melting of glaciers and snow due to high temperatures, Mount Everest expedition operators are finding more and more bodies of climbers on and around the world's highest peak
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Mount Everest Getting Warmer, Glaciers Shrinking: Research
Mount Everest is getting warmer for the past 50 years with the glaciers around the world's highest peak shrinking "remarkably", according to a Chinese research. The glaciers in 8,844-metre-high Mt Everest, known as Mt Qomolangma in Tibet, have been shrinking "remarkably" swelling glacial lakes and rivers downstream, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hun...
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World's Highest Marathon Returns to Earthquake-Hit Everest
Dozens of runners donned snow goggles and braved icy temperatures to participate in the world's highest marathon in the foothills of Mount Everest today, five months after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated Nepal.
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Blog: Frozen Bodies, Snow Stained With Blood at Everest Base Camp
Eight months ago, I pitched an idea to film the journey to Mount Everest. When I discussed it with my colleagues, it seemed too big a project to take off, but to my surprise, the idea sounded great to our channel head, and she gave me the go-ahead.
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When an Avalanche Hit Everest Base Camp: Terrifying Moments on Camera
A deadly wall of snow, and then everything is covered in white. An ominous silence, then cries of terror. Terrifying moments after an avalanche struck a base camp at Mount Everest on Saturday have been caught on camera by German mountaineer Jost Kobusch.
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'Demons on The Mountain'; Survivors Recall Avalanche Terror
When Khile Sherpa opened his eyes, the snow around him was bright red, drenched with blood streaming from gashes in his body from the avalanche that catapulted him across Mount Everest's base camp at lunchtime on Saturday.
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Choppers Rescue Mount Everest Avalanche Victims
Helicopters airlifted injured climbers off Mount Everest today after an avalanche killed at least 17 people, an AFP team at the scene reported, as images of the disaster showed a terrifying cloud of snow roaring towards base camp.
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Nepalese Runner Wins World's Highest Marathon
Clad in trekking boots and snow goggles, more than 150 runners took part in the world's highest marathon in the foothills of Mount Everest on Thursday, passing yaks and monasteries along the snow-covered trail.
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13th body pulled from snow in Mount Everest avalanche
Search teams recovered a 13th body Saturday from the snow and ice covering a dangerous climbing pass on Mount Everest, where an avalanche a day earlier swept over a group of Sherpa guides in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak.
