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A new national census puts Nepal's tiger population at a record high, the fastest tiger recovery of any country on Earth — and it's reshaping what a Chitwan or Bardia safari actually looks like.
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On 3 June 1950, two Frenchmen became the first humans to stand on an 8,000-metre summit — three years before Everest. The descent nearly killed them both.
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Six metres below Everest's summit, geologists have found fossils of sea creatures that died 450 million years before Hillary and Tenzing were born — and the mountain is still rising to meet them.
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Joe Brown and George Band summited Kangchenjunga on a promise never to stand on its true top. A 2025 Indian Army climb from the Nepal side broke that unwritten rule again, and reignited a decades-old fight over whether the mountain should be climbed at all.
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An avalanche between Camps 2 and 3 swept a 10-member team on Pakistan's Broad Peak on 30 July 2026. Four bodies have been recovered (not yet identified); six climbers, including Nims Purja, remain missing as helicopters search. Updated live.
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Nepali photojournalist Purnima Shrestha set a world first on Everest in 2024 — and this May she went back up for a sixth summit altogether.
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Kristin Harila, who summited all 14 of the world's 8,000m peaks in a record 92 days, has now completed Everest's brutal Triple Crown — mostly without bottled oxygen.
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Machapuchare towers over Pokhara and watches over half our treks in the Annapurna region — and by law, nobody is allowed to stand on top of it.
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In a centuries-old ritual beside Kathmandu's Durbar Square, a toddler is chosen for 32 physical perfections, tested for total fearlessness beside sacrificed buffalo heads, and enthroned as a living goddess — until her first period ends the reign overnight.
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Scientists studying why Sherpa guides thrive above 8,000 metres without extra oxygen found the answer partly written by Denisovans, an extinct human relative, and partly in mitochondria that simply burn fuel better.
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Two Everest-region monasteries guarded 'Yeti' relics for centuries. Sir Edmund Hillary tested one himself in a Chicago lab; the other waited until 2011 for a DNA answer.
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The Kali Gandaki cuts a canyon deeper than the Grand Canyon between two 8,000-metre peaks, and the black stones its current uncovers are worshipped as a living form of Vishnu.
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Before any client sets foot above Base Camp, a small SPCC crew re-threads ladders and rope through the shifting Khumbu Icefall — the stretch that has killed more people than any other part of the mountain.
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In September 2024 a National Geographic team found a boot, a sock and a foot on Everest's Central Rongbuk Glacier — and the label read A.C. IRVINE.
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No family has stood on the world's highest point across three generations except this one — and the middle chapter fell during the deadliest storm in Everest's history to that point.
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French alpinist Benjamin Védrines climbed from advance base camp to K2's 8,611-metre summit in 10 hours 59 minutes on July 28, 2024, without bottled oxygen or a partner — on the exact route where he had been found unconscious two years earlier.
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Bill Stampfl was buried by an avalanche on Peru's Huascarán in 2002. In June 2024, two American climbers found his mummified remains and a passport that told them exactly who he was.
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One climber was recovered from the Ober Gabelhorn in 2000. His companion stayed lost until climbers found him on 15 October 2025.
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Apa Sherpa held the world record for Everest summits for years before retiring in 2011 — today he funds Nepali children's schooling from a suburb of Salt Lake City.
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On October 9, 2024, 18-year-old Nima Rinji Sherpa and 23-year-old Adriana Brownlee each completed all 14 of the world's 8,000-metre peaks on Shishapangma's summit — two separate world records, set on the same mountain, on the same morning.
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Every 29 May, roughly 250 runners drop nearly 2,000 vertical metres down the Everest Base Camp trail to Namche Bazaar. Here's what the Tenzing-Hillary Everest Marathon actually involves, and who has run it fastest.
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In late October 2025, a French climber and a South Korean climber died nine days apart on Ama Dablam, the knife-edged 6,812-metre peak that towers over Everest's most popular trekking trail.
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Russian veteran Rustam Nabiev spent about a week — instead of the usual three or four days — hauling himself past the Khumbu Icefall and up the world's highest mountain without prosthetic legs, becoming the first person on record to summit Everest this way.
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Former British Gurkha Hari Budha Magar, born in a Himalayan village in Nepal's Rolpa district, became the first double above-knee amputee to complete the Seven Summits when he reached Antarctica's Mount Vinson on 6 January 2026.
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Bozeman, Montana teenager Emma Schwerin summited Everest on 15 May 2025 at 17 years, 2 months and 24 days old — completing an 18-month father-daughter journey across all seven continents and becoming the youngest woman ever to finish the Seven Summits.
