Nepal has announced an increase in the cost of climbing Mount Everest, raising the fee for foreign climbers to $15,000 starting September 2025. This marks the first fee hike in nearly a decade, as ...

Why is the roof of the world covered in our shit? Lots of reasons, but it might come down to common laziness. The grueling hike up Mount Everest isn’t as pristine as you might imagine. Step out of ...

Waste left high on Everest does more than scar the mountain: it can threaten later climbers and leaves local workers and ...

When climbing enthusiasts take a stab at the highest mountain in the world, thinking about their bodily waste is probably low on their list of priorities. This season, porters working on Everest ...

Mount Everest has been dubbed world's highest rubbish dump. A group of tourists sip water at a five-star hotel in Kathmandu, unaware that the green glasses in their hands were once bottles discarded ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Human waste left by climbers on Mount Everest has become a problem that is causing pollution and threatening to spread disease on the world's highest peak, the chief of Nepal's ...