The expansive western flank of Lhotse is called the Lhotse Face and ... It becomes very obvious when one has reached this point in the climb—one's crampons hit hard rock. The top of the yellow ...

The expansive western flank of Lhotse is called the Lhotse Face and is an unavoidable part of the traditional southeast route up Everest. Camp III sits about halfway up this ascending wall of ...

Join an unforgettable excursion that brings together Nepal’s finest hiking routes and height ascents. Scale Island height, ...

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 ...

sharing the highly ambitious goal of completing the coveted Everest - Lhotse traverse without supplementary oxygen: 41-year-old Romanian Horia Colibasanu and 53-year-old Slovak Peter Hamor who hope to ...

K Expeditions will fix the ropes from Camp 2 to the summit of Everest. Owner Lakpa Sherpa spoke to ExplorersWeb about the ...

Climbers ascend through the Khumbu Icefall, traverse the Western Cwm, and climb the Lhotse Face to the South Col (Camp IV, or High Camp). From Camp IV, climbers embark on the summit push – up ...

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, an Austrian-born mountaineer, became the first woman to climb the world's 14 highest peaks without ...

An unsupported attempt on Makalu and an 83-year-old on I are two of the more unusual Himalayan expeditions this spring.