This Everest season, Karl Egloff and Tyler Andrews will try speed ascents. Kaji Sherpa holds the record, set in 1998, but not ...

The primal forces that shape our planet, Fire, water, wind, and earth, can also bring chaos ... killing nearly 9,000 people and triggering a lethal avalanche on Mount Everest. The series successfully ...

Satellite images reveal that the elevation at which snow accumulates on the Himalayan mountains is rising at abnormal rates. According to NASA's Earth Observatory, the higher snow lines have concerned ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Researchers are investigating why the ice of a glacier on Mount Everest is near the melting point despite sub-freezing air temperatures. They hypothesize that ...

A purpose-built vessel, carrying the first turbines for a major wind farm in the North Sea, has set sail with its first cargo. The Wind Peak arrived in Hull on 12 March to collect components to be ...

With Everest climbing ... and include high wind speed, freezing temperatures and low air density. Following the 2024 trials, DJI donated the drones to AirLift, whose operators have continued testing, ...

A new chapter in Mount Everest expeditions is about to begin ... DJI engineers accounted for temperatures between -15°C and 5°C, wind speeds of up to 15 m/s, and the high-altitude environment above ...

Goods that would normally take seven hours to be transported by foot from Everest's base camp to Camp I can be airlifted within 15 minutes.

When the main climbing season begins next month on Mount Everest, expedition companies will test drones that can ferry loads as heavy as 35 pounds in the high altitudes, bring back ladders used to ...