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Jeremy Davidson scaled rugby’s peak with the 1997 Lions and ahead of today’s first Test he reveals the secret to beating the world champion Springboks in their backyard.
Ang Rita was a national hero known as the ‘snow leopard”.
“This black mountain, in the past this was all ice but now it’s just rock.”
Ex-rugby player Damian Browne is working his way towards The Seven Summits. Everest awaits.
The family called off the search for Seamus Lawless yesterday evening.
Séamus Lawless and Kevin Hynes have both died on the mountain.
Today marks the 25th anniversary of Dawson Stelfox reaching the summit of the world’s highest mountain.
A ban on blind and double amputee climbers has been overturned.
These latest discoveries brings the death toll in recent days to 10.
John Burke says the final night was “hell on earth”.
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Min Bahadur Sherchan was attempting to reclaim his title as the world’s oldest person to summit Mount Everest.
The former soldier became the world’s oldest climber to summit Everest in 2008 when he was 76.
It’s thought a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal in 2015 knocked an inch off the top of the world’s highest peak.
The latest fatality is an Indian climber.
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The death toll has topped 6,000.
Paul Devaney was at Everest Base Camp in Nepal when the earthquake hit.
At least 18 people died at Everest as the earthquake and avalanches hit at the weekend.
Efforts are being made to contact some 50 Irish citizens in the quake-hit region.
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The deadly avalanche of 18 April led to labour dispute and a closure of the mountain route.
Six Sherpa guides were killed after they went early in the morning to fix ropes for climbers.
Each member of an expedition must bring back at least eight kilos of rubbish, apart from their own trash.
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Since then, Temba Tsheri laments, the mountain has become ‘a playground’.
Yuichiro Miura described himself as “the happiest person in the world” after completing the task.
He already broke the world record in 2007 but it was beaten four years later.
Sherpas had advised Europeans not to climb a new “undisclosed” route, but eyewitness says climbers ignored request.
The three climbers were descending the mountain when a wind storm hit the mountain.
Tributes are paid to John Delaney in Co Laois, as his wife describes losing her “husband, hero and best friend”.
Delaney, a successful businessman who founded the market prediction company Intrade, died last weekend just 50 metres from the summit of Everest. Business colleagues have been paying tribute to him after his tragic death.
John Delaney, 41, hadn’t been told that his wife gave birth before he died on Saturday only 50 metres from the summit.
Climbers will be able to text home and check their email thanks to Nepalese telecommunications company.