Tag: Mount Everest

• Monday, May 16th 2022 - 10:17 UTC

  Vanessa Estol is the first Uruguayan person to reach the summit of Mount Everest

  

  The mountaineer and climber Vanessa Estol became on Saturday the first person of Uruguayan nationality to reach the summit of Mount Everest (8,848.86 meters above sea level).

• Tuesday, May 11th 2021 - 08:58 UTC

  China acknowledges the need to guard the Mt. Everest border to keep coronavirus at bay

  

  The government of China Monday announced it will be reinforcing its patrolling of the Himalayan Nepalese border, particularly near or around Mount Everest to prevent the coronavirus from entering the country through climbers.

• Thursday, May 6th 2021 - 08:40 UTC

  Covid-19 spreading even among Mount Everest climbers

  

  Despite a Nepalese Health Ministry warning last week that “hospitals have run out of beds,” there is no cancellation of expeditions to Mount Everest insight.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2020 - 14:26 UTC

  Nepal and China agree that Mount Everest is 86cm higher: 8,848.86m

  

  The highest point on Earth got a bit higher on Tuesday as China and Nepal finally agreed on a precise elevation for Mount Everest after decades of debate. The agreed height unveiled at a joint news conference in Kathmandu of 8,848.86m is 86cm higher than the measurement previously recognized by Nepal, and more than 4m above China's official figure.

• Tuesday, December 4th 2018 - 18:41 UTC

  Japanese mountaineer aged 86 ready to take on Aconcagua again

  

  Yuichiro Miura, an 86 year old mountain climber from Japan, Monday promised to ‘hang on to the last’ in a bid to climb Argentina’s Mount Aconcagua in January.

• Monday, April 27th 2015 - 06:58 UTC

  No end in suffering for Nepal: officially 3.220 dead and powerful aftershocks

  

  At least 3,218 people are now known to have died in a massive earthquake which hit Nepal on Saturday, say officials. Rameshwor Dangal, head of Nepal's disaster management agency, said another 6,500 people had been injured. Dozens of people are also reported to have been killed in neighboring China and India.