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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 Hillary Step — and why the same stretch of ridge is still making headlines in 2026.
Safety & Advisories
This week's avalanche on Pakistan's Broad Peak has renewed the Karakoram's reputation as the world's deadliest climbing ground — but seven decades of summit-and-death records show the real picture is more specific, and more surprising, than Karakoram versus Everest.
Safety & Advisories
A helicopter can put you at Everest Base Camp in one day for about the same group price as the trek. Here's what the extra 9-14 days actually buy you, according to CDC altitude-risk guidance and our own 2026 pricing.
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EBC and ABC are both sold as moderate treks, but altitude, not distance, is what actually separates them. Here are the real training benchmarks, not the hype.
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Nepal has required every foreign trekker to hire a licensed guide since April 2023, which changes the real question for solo women from should I go alone to how do I pick the right guide and route. Here is the honest checklist.
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The honest age and altitude limits for trekking Nepal as a family, what pediatric and mountain-medicine guidance actually says, and which real routes fit which ages.
Safety & Advisories
We read the actual UK and US government advisories line by line — the specific risks they name, the guide rule already in force, and what it really means for women trekking Nepal alone.
Safety & Advisories
We read the CDC's current Nepal travel-health page line by line — what's legally required, what's strongly recommended, and what you can safely skip.
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On 28 February 2026, three men ended up in the same crevasse on the Alps' second-highest massif. Two were pulled out alive. Rodolfo Franguelli, 61, was not — he fell during the effort to save the first.
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A July 2025 death near K2's infamous Bottleneck is the latest reminder of why this narrow, ice-hung couloir has claimed climbers for seven decades — including 11 in a single day in 2008.
Safety & Advisories
In April a collapsing wall of ice sealed every route to Everest's summit near the spot that killed 16 Sherpa guides in 2014. Months later, a drone did in one afternoon what usually takes weeks on foot.
Safety & Advisories
Brian Roberts died in a Mount Bailey avalanche after guides allegedly dismissed an official danger report — the lawsuit is a case study in what to ask before you hire any backcountry guide.
