Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A guide helped this group of Canadians trek near to Everest (in the background on top-left), to the nearby Kala Pathar peak. This is a list of notable Mount Everest guides, which are professional mountaineers (and mountaineering firms) who help people to ascend Mount Everest in the Himalayas in return for fees.
The early slowness of expedition frequency reflected the many difficulties of mounting one at that time, which included expense, travel by conventional means from distant Europe, language and culture barriers, the need to hire large numbers of native porters, access to the mountains (including permission of respective governments), extremely limited communications, and, simply, the unknown, as ...
National Geographic said Himex was the "largest and most sophisticated guiding operation on Everest" in a 2013 article. [2] Himex's team is known for fixing lines on Mount Everest, although in 2012 other teams did this work. [3] Three of the expeditions of this company were filmed in the television show Everest: Beyond the Limit between 2006 ...
Asian Trekking has supported expeditions on the North and South sides of Mount Everest, and also to Lhotse. [15] [16] Asian Trekking has also supported International Dream Everest and Eco Everest Expedition trips to Mount Everest. [17] In the aftermath of the 2015 Mount Everest avalanche, Asian Trekking and Himex helped injured people at their ...
By 2013 the company had led 19 expeditions to Mount Everest. [12] Cotter suggested an "Everest ID" for each climber at this time, basically like a snow-pass for The company was contacted for information about hurt climbers during the 2015 Mount Everest avalanche , and they reported that people had been evacuated, including one Sherpa who was ...
A British climber and a Nepali guide have broken their own records for most climbs of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, hiking officials said on Sunday. Rakesh Gurung, director of Nepal ...
Russell Reginald Brice (born 3 July 1952) is a New Zealand mountaineer.He was the owner/manager of Himex (Himalayan Experience Ltd.), [1] a climbing expedition company. He has summited Cho Oyu seven times, Himal Chuli and Mount Everest twice, as well as Manaslu in October 2010, which was his 14th summit of an 8000 m peak.
OceanGate, whose submersible vessel Titan carrying five crew members is lost in the North Atlantic, has offered tours to the famous shipwreck site since 2021. Bevan Hurley writes