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It sounds like something I'd be dumb enough to try; scale the top of Everest and strip naked at 29,000 feet to celebrate. Damn it if someone has already beaten me to it. Last year a Nepali climber did just that. While it sent some chuckles through ...

Climbing Mt. Everest used to involve years of training, thousands of dollars in equipment and plenty of luck. But, come 2012, all it will take is one step. The Chinese government has announced plans to build an escalator up the northeast ridge on the ...

After the Pirates of the Caribbean ride and the Haunted Mansion (about which, we blogged recently...to some controversy), probably my favorite ride at Disneyland is the Matterhorn. The reasons for this have as much to do with the fun quotient of the ...

As we mentioned last week, the Himalayan climbing season is in full swing, and the first teams of mountaineers should be arriving in base camp on Mt. Everest this week. BC on Everest falls at approximately 17,500 feet, higher than most mountains in ...

It's Everest time again, which means someone is paying exhorbitant peak fees (in the $30,000 range as I understand it from a friend) and making the trek from basecamp to the peak…and from there doing dispatches from atop the ...

In case you missed it, you can go over to the superb outdoors site greatoutdoors.com and check out the action on Mount Everest. At the site, six-time Everest summiter and noted high-altitude guide Dave Hahn reports in day by day from various ...

File this under, Wow, who knew. In May, a helicopter made the first-ever landing on the summit of Everest. The landing was apparently a publicity stunt by Europcopter, the maker of the helicopter, but it could very much change the way that ...

We posted about these guys before, but it's an ongoing thing so it's worth reminding. Head over to Great Outdoors.com to read and listen to some excellent dispatches from the top of the world. Dave Hahn and Doug Brockmeyer are calling in from ...

Is Mount Everest, the grand-daddy of all mountains, growing or shrinking? Good question, and scientists can't quite seem to figure it out. But Chinese scientists headed up the mountain yesterday to find out…they hope. They placed a ...

When it comes to high altitude treks, the hike up to Everest Base Camp is amongst the most popular, and for good reason. It combines fantastic views of the Himalaya with cultural immersion in Nepal's remote Khumbu Valley, along with a healthy dose of ...

In another ominous sign of global climate change, climbers on Mount Everest are reporting that they are finding house flies in Base Camp for the first time. According to this story from The Guardian, the insects began appearing earlier this year, ...

Gnarly. Another Everest story of a near life-ending experience. This one comes from CNN, and talks about Pierre Bourdeau a Canadian climber was caught in an avalanche at Mount Everest and lived to tell the tale. ...

Sad news. A Norwegian skier named Tomas Olsson has been missing on Mount Everest for a few days now after attempting with his partner to become the first people to descend the north face of Everest on skis. This was a hard-core ballsy effort, and ...

So there we were hailing the recent achievement of Mark Inglis, who climbed Everest with no legs, and not soon after we have some guy doing the same thing at the ripe old age of 70. Well, we're not totally sure about this, but it seems probable. Or a ...