Kaji Sherpa set the current Everest record (without bottled oxygen) back in 1998. Yet the late Elizabeth Hawley of The Himalayan Database noted a dispute about his ascent. It appeared in the ...

While some Annapurna climbers call for a helicopter only in dire straits, others may feign problems simply to avoid the dangerous descent from Camp 3.

Pakistan's ace mountaineer Sirbaz Ali added another feather to his cap today when he successfully scaled the world's highest mountain, the Everest, without using supplementary oxygen. Sirbaz, who had ...

Nima’s father holds the record for climbing Everest, the world’s highest peak, without bottled oxygen at the age of 19, becoming the youngest climber to do so. Nima started climbing at 16 and ...

The first Australian ascent of Mt Everest in 1984 is one of the great feats of mountaineering. Climbed by a small team semi-alpine style, with no bottled oxygen, via the Great (Norton) Couloir, it ...

This Everest season, Swiss-Ecuadorian Karl Egloff and American Tyler Andrews are both attempting record-breaking speed ascents. Kaji Sherpa set the current Everest record (without bottled oxygen ...