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# Mount Everest

This year
2023
Two more climbers die after being on Everest, bringing climbing season death toll to seven
Nepal has issued 478 permits for Everest to foreign climbers this season, which runs until early June.
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May 18th 2023, 11:15 AM
Last year
2022
Sherpa guide breaks own record scaling Mount Everest for 26th time
Kami Rita, whose father was among the first Sherpa guides, first scaled Everest in 1994 and has been making the trip nearly every year since.
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May 8th 2022, 3:00 PM
Everest's highest glacier rapidly losing ice, says new study
The formation may already have lost around 55 metres of thickness in the last 25 years.
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Feb 5th 2022, 3:37 PM
All time
Two climbers - from the US and Switzerland - have died on Mount Everest
On average, around five climbers die every year on the world’s highest peak.
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May 13th 2021, 1:50 PM
Mount Everest grows four metres after China and Nepal agree new height measurement
The new official height of the world’s tallest peak is 8,848.86 metres.
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Dec 8th 2020, 10:52 AM
Veteran Sherpa guide who set Everest record dies aged 72
Ang Rita was a national hero known as the ‘snow leopard”.
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Sep 22nd 2020, 8:48 AM
Your evening longread: Uncovering the unsolved mysteries of Mount Everest
It’s a coronavirus-free zone as we bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
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Jul 9th 2020, 8:00 PM
In Nepal, Sherpas are losing vital tourism income, but 'stopping the virus is more important than our jobs'
Cormac Fitzgerald reports from Nepal on how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting Mount Everest’s guides.
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Mar 21st 2020, 11:55 AM
Tributes to Professor Séamus Lawless, who died on Mt Everest, as project to restore Four Courts documents launched
Historical records destroyed by fire at Dublin’s Four Courts at the beginning of the Irish Civil War have been restored digitally.
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Dec 5th 2019, 1:40 PM
Mount Everest region to ban single-use plastics
The region receives over 50,000 tourists every year, including climbers and trekkers.
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Aug 21st 2019, 5:11 PM
American climber dies after reaching top of Mount Everest
About half a dozen climbers died on Everest last week, including two Irish men .
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May 28th 2019, 10:43 AM
Memorial service plans for Trinity professor who went missing on Everest announced
The family called off the search for Seamus Lawless yesterday evening.
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May 25th 2019, 1:00 PM
British climber dies on Mount Everest amid overcrowding concerns on world's highest peak
Robin Fisher’s death follows that of Irishman Kevin Hynes who died yesterday.
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May 25th 2019, 11:00 AM
Search for Trinity College professor ended as second Irishman dies climbing Everest
Séamus Lawless and Kevin Hynes have both died on the mountain.
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May 24th 2019, 6:00 PM
Search continues for Trinity College professor who went missing on Everest
An American and Indian climber have died on the mountain this week.
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May 23rd 2019, 9:08 PM
Body of Indian climber, in group with missing Irish man, recovered from Mt Everest
Ravi Thakar (28) was found dead inside his tent at Everest Camp 4 last Friday.
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May 22nd 2019, 7:46 AM
Government will help family of Trinity professor who went missing on Everest 'in any way possible'
Seamus Lawless went missing on the world’s highest mountain earlier this week.
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May 19th 2019, 6:02 PM
Fundraising page to help find Trinity College professor missing on Mount Everest reaches €180,000
Séamus Lawless went missing after reaching the summit of the mountain.
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May 18th 2019, 7:58 PM
Trinity College professor missing on Mount Everest a day after reaching peak of world's highest mountain
Seamus Lawless reportedly fell on the mountain at an altitude of 8,300m yesterday.
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May 16th 2019, 6:12 PM
Tourists banned from Mount Everest base camp in bid to reduce rubbish piling up
The growing popularity of the mountain has lead to mounting levels of trash – and corpses.
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Feb 15th 2019, 4:32 PM
Japanese climber who lost nine fingers on Everest dies on his eighth attempt at the summit
Nobukazu Kuriki was a solo climber who’d conquered other 8,000m peaks in Nepal.
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May 21st 2018, 10:38 AM
Double leg amputee reaches summit of Everest, 40 years after losing his feet during his first attempt
Xia Boyu had both his feet amputated after suffering frostbite during his first attempt at Everest in 1975.
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May 14th 2018, 9:33 AM
Dublin man sets off to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in bid to climb each continent's highest mountain
Derek Mahon from Dublin climbed Mount Everest in 2014.
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Jul 30th 2017, 7:00 PM
The bodies of four more climbers found inside a tent near summit of Mount Everest
These latest discoveries brings the death toll in recent days to 10.
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May 24th 2017, 7:26 AM
Rescuers find body of missing Everest climber, bringing death toll to four
More than a dozen climbers have also been rescued from the mountain in the last three days.
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May 22nd 2017, 12:00 PM
Prepping for Everest from your bed: The controversial way to summit in 35 days
The use of a hypoxic tent is becoming popular, but some climbers aren’t
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May 13th 2017, 5:00 PM
85-year-old attempting to reclaim title as oldest person to summit Everest dies at base camp
The former soldier became the world’s oldest climber to summit Everest in 2008 when he was 76.
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May 6th 2017, 3:29 PM
Is Everest still the tallest peak? Scientists aren't too sure
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.
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Jan 25th 2017, 6:15 AM
Are performance-enhancing drugs corrupting the climbing game on Mount Everest?
We take a look at mountaineering’s complicated relationship with doping.
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Dec 29th 2016, 4:00 PM
"I don't understand, I still don’t understand" - Climber's grief after wife's death on Everest
Robert Gropel and his wife Maria Strydom were climbing Mount Everest together earlier this month when she died.
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May 30th 2016, 9:20 PM
This man has lost nine fingers to frostbite ... and he's trying to climb Mount Everest
Nobukazu Kuriki lost nine fingers to frostbite in 2012 on Everest. He is the only climber trying to summit the world’s highest mountain this year.
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Sep 28th 2015, 10:20 PM
Man who climbed Everest in shorts can teach you how to control your immune system
It can be as simple as breathing in and breathing out.
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Jul 18th 2015, 9:30 PM
Four Irish people have still not contacted home after Nepal earthquake
One Nepalese man was removed from the rubble after 82 hours. He said he survived by drinking his own urine.
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Apr 29th 2015, 3:00 PM
Nepal quake death toll surges over 3,000
It’s the Himalayan nation’s deadliest disaster in more than 80 years.
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Apr 27th 2015, 7:28 AM
There are 100 Irish people in areas affected by the Nepal earthquake
Efforts are being made to contact some 50 Irish citizens in the quake-hit region.
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Apr 26th 2015, 8:15 PM
John Giles says 'resentment' stopped him succeeding at Shamrock Rovers
The Leeds legend and RTÉ pundit recalled his time at the helm of the Irish side on Off the Ball.
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Apr 17th 2015, 3:08 PM
Everest on speed: Summit expert will take you to the top of the world in six weeks
The best way to climb Everest is to do it fast,” says Adrian Ballinger.
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Aug 31st 2014, 6:30 PM
Two Irishmen reach summit of Mount Everest
Derek Mahon from Dublin and Noel Hanna from County Down reached the mountain’s summit on Saturday.
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May 26th 2014, 3:14 PM
Sherpas fear for their livelihoods as Everest 'shuts down'
The deadly avalanche of 18 April led to labour dispute and a closure of the mountain route.
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Apr 29th 2014, 8:15 PM
Bad weather halts rescue after deadliest Everest disaster
13 guides were killed and nine were plucked to safety after an ice avalanche smashed into their expedition on Friday.
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Apr 20th 2014, 10:27 AM
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