Tim Howell and guide Jon Gupta of the UK arrived in Everest Base Camp yesterday to join the hundreds about to climb Lhotse or Everest. But their plan is dramatically different. Howell wants to make ...

KATHMANDU: A renowned mountaineer from South Korean has returned to Nepal yet again to make his fifth attempt to climb the Lhotse South Face, one of the toughest climbs in the world, this autumn. Upon ...

Plans exist to be changed last minute, especially on Everest and Lhotse this season. “Tim Howell has had a cough for a while, but it’s suddenly gotten really bad in the last 24 hours,” Jon Gupta told ...

At the end of December a Japanese expedition led by Osamu Tanabe managed to climb the south Fasce of Lhotse (8516m) in winter, but turned back 40m short of the summit. Many expeditions are in the ...

A team of Polish climbers plans to scale Lhotse, the world’s fourth-highest mountain, which rises to 8,516 metres. Lhotse, south face. Photo: Uwe Gille [CC BY-SA 3. ...

The Americans Hilaree Nelson and Jim Morrison have carried out the first integral ski descent of Lhotse (8516m) in the Himalaya, skiing directly off the summit down to Camp 2 at 6400 meters. After the ...

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Two American climbers have successfully skied down from the summit of the world’s fourth-highest mountain, organisers said on Monday. James Morrison of Tahoe, California, and Hilaree Nelson of ...

A Cape Town woman has climbed Mount Everest and Mount Lhotse, back to back, within 24 hours. Remy Kloos is the first South African to conquer the double summit and the first SA woman to climb Mount ...

Mt Lhotse lies in the shadow of the Everest, just south of the world's highest peak, but is a much tougher mountain to summit. Of the 14 eight-thousanders (peaks higher than 8,000 metres) in the world ...

"Being part of the Lhotse South Face Expedition 2022, managed by Seven Summit Treks, my team will be attempting to climb one of the most difficult vertical walls in the world and stand on top of the ...