Safety & Advisories
Climbers came home with before-and-after photos. Nepal's tourism department told them not to talk about it. Here's what actually happened to the…
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 1, 2026
In May 2017, a British mountain guide named Tim Mosedale climbed past the last real obstacle before Everest's summit and posted a photograph that Nepal's government did not want him to post. It's official, he wrote: the Hillary Step is no more. Nepali…
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Ask a mountaineer what stood between Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay and the first summit of Everest in 1953, and most will name the Hillary Step before anything else. It was a near-vertical band of rock and ice roughly 12 metres tall, wedged into the ridge…
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When climbers did return, several reported the Step had changed beyond recognition. Mosedale's post triggered the first public argument in May 2017. Days later, American guide Garrett Madison released a side-by-side comparison, the same rock face shot in 2011…
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