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Aug 7, 2025

Mount Everest Climbers Visit the Pangboche Monastery to Pray for Safety

　　When you walk into the Sherpa village of Pangboche, which is about ten miles from Mount Everest Base Camp, it feels like youre stepping back in time. 　　The town sits on a hillside at 12,000 feet above sea level, just off the trail to Everest and 22,349-foot Ama Dablam. With its stone homes and meandering yaks, Pangboche is a throwback...

Aug 7, 2025

Lessons Learned During the 2015 Nepal Earthquake

　　I remember the shaking. 　　The vibrations were so severe that I could not stand up. After a few seconds, the soil beneath my feet liquified, and the village I was standing in began to spin like one of those sketchy teacup rides at an American county fair. 　　I also remember the noise. In an instant, the planet itself became a...

Aug 7, 2025

Overcrowding Is Inevitable on Mount Everest. Here’s How Climbers Deal With It.

　　Hundreds of climbers and guides are headed to the summit of Mount Everest to make the most of the first stretch of favorable weather of the 2025 climbing season. 　　Here in Base Camp, the chatter amongst expedition leaders is about the traffic jams and conga lines that will soon appear on the mountain. Youve probably seen photos of the congestion...

Aug 7, 2025

Climbers Will Soon Push for the Summit on Mount Everest

　　The climbing season on Mount Everest is about to get a much-needed shot of adrenaline. 　　On Friday, May 9, a rope-fixing team comprised of nine climbing sherpas from guiding company 8K Expeditions reached the summit, signaling the official start of summit bonanza on the worlds highest peak. 　　In 2024, the route was finalized on May 10. This year, the rope...

Aug 7, 2025

The Debate Over Mount Everest’s Name

　　Want to stay up on Outside’s 2025 Everest Season coverage? Sign up for our Outside: Dispatches from Everest newsletter. 　　What name should we call the worlds highest peak? 　　In this weeks Dispatches from Everest video, Ben Ayers dives into the simmering debate over this topic. And he does so from Ground Zero of the argument: the giant spray painted rock at...

Aug 7, 2025

Think Your Job Is Tough? Talk to a Mount Everest Icefall Doctor.

　　The helipad at the northern end of Mount Everest Base Camp was buzzing with energy when I arrived on a sunny Monday afternoon in mid-May. Men clad in DayGlo vests and hardhats chatted as the whine of a flying cargo drone echoed through the valley. A few hundred meters beyond, the massive Khumbu Icefall cascaded from the flanks of Mount...

Aug 7, 2025

Deaths and Rescues Amid the Summit Push on Mount Everest

　　The climbing season is in full swing on Mount Everest, with several dozen climbers and guides headed for the summit amid a window of clear weather. 　　But news has also come back to Base Camp of injuries, rescues, and even deaths. 　　On Friday, May 16, word circulated that a climber from India named Subrata Gosh had died on Mount Everest...

Aug 7, 2025

There Was a Dramatic Helicopter Rescue on Mount Everest

　　Rescuers and expedition operators in Base Camp buzzed with enthusiasm on the evening of Wednesday, May 14 after a helicopter pilot executed a daring rescue high on the slopes of Mount Everest. 　　The drama began at approximately 6:45 A.M. after a sizable early wave of climbers reached the summit and began to descend. Clear skies on the peak gave way...

Aug 7, 2025

Here’s How I Stayed Healthy During the Trek to Mount Everest Base Camp

　　Part of the challenge of hiking to Mount Everest Base Camp is avoiding illness and exhaustion. Its no secret that tourists often pass gastrointestinal viruses and head colds to each other during the trek, and the extreme altitude makes the body particularly vulnerable. The altitudes you attain during the trek to Mount Everest can also cause serious (or even fatal)...

Aug 7, 2025

Getting to and From Mount Everest Is Harder than You Think

　　The first leg of travel to reach Mount Everest Base Camp is sometimes the hardest. 　　Thats what Outside correspondent Ben Ayers experienced earlier this week. In his latest Outside: Dispatches from Everest video, Ayers takes us inside the topsy turvy world of air travel in the Mount Everest region. 　　Western tourists hoping to hike to the worlds tallest mountain first fly...

Aug 7, 2025

Alex Pancoe Died on Makalu. Friends Say He Climbed With “An Incredible Sense of Purpose.”

　　On Sunday, May 4, American climber Alex Pancoe died on the slopes of Nepals 27,838-foot Makalu, the worlds fifth-highest mountain. 　　Pancoe was completing an acclimatization hike in preparation for a Makalu summit bid, and had recently returned to Camp II at 22,310 feet when he died, sources told Outside. His guide, Terray Sylvester of American climbing company Madison Mountaineering, told Outside...

Aug 7, 2025

Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke Opposes the Plan to Sell Public Lands

　　On May 7, Rep. Ryan Zinke, a Republican congressman from Montana, and Rep. Gabe Vasquez, a Democrat from New Mexico, stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building to announce a new voting bloc within the U.S. House of Representatives aimed at protecting public lands. 　　Called the Public Lands Caucus, the group includes 14 congressmen and women—seven Democrats and...

Aug 7, 2025

National Parks Face “Extreme” Cuts Under the Proposed 2026 Federal Budget

　　The National Park Service will lose almost 40 percent of its annual funding and surrender an undetermined amount of federally-run parks to state control—if the White House’s plans for 2026 come to fruition. 　　On Friday, President Donald Trump released his discretionary budget request for 2026, a 44-page document submitted to U.S. Congress that outlines how the government will allocate federal...

Aug 7, 2025

Lakeside Voyages Across the Mountain State

　　West Virginia’s famed country roads offer an open invitation. Weaving across rugged terrain and through spirited small towns to uncrowded gems and world-class outdoor adventures alike, the roads form a latticework of endless possibilities for road trip itineraries. Five customized Mountain Rides can help connect activities that range from pristine biking to productive fishing, with prime camping options all along...

Aug 7, 2025

Hipcamp Just Added 250,000 Campsites

　　I was flummoxed, frustrated, and frantic. 　　It was the spring of 2024, and like millions of Americans, I was searching for a campsite ahead of Memorial Day Weekend. I opened several dozen web browser windows on my laptop and pinged between websites like Recreation.gov, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, a regional RV resort finder, and yes, even Google Maps. If only...

Aug 7, 2025

Will Oak Flat Soon Become a 1,000-Foot-Deep Crater?

　　This is a developing story and will be updated as more details are announced. 　　When Jack Colavita, a high school English teacher in Scottsdale, Arizona, gets out of school at 3 p.m., he typically heads straight for the boulders. 　　Specifically, he drives 65 miles east to Queen Creek Canyon, drags his crashpads out to classic Oak Flat problems such as...

Aug 7, 2025

Filming in National Parks Just Got Easier—Expect More Climbing Content

　　On January 4, 2025, President Biden signed the bipartisan EXPLORE Act into U.S. law, ending a year-long panic over a proposed bolting ban in national parks. The new legislation evoked a near–unanimous celebration by the American climbing community. 　　One of the lesser-known changes to the law, however, was Section 125, the Federal Interior Land Media (“FILM”) Act, which the North...

Aug 7, 2025

Pro Climber Allison Vest Thinks Climbing Pants Can Be Better. So She Makes Her Own.

　　For Canadian professional climber Allison Vest, objects of obsession aren’t exclusively found within the realm of rock. She finds them in quiet moments at home between climbing trips, sitting at her sewing machine and losing track of time making her own clothes. Vest climbs in many of her handmade creations: bolero sets, tailored vintage North Face jeans, a gingham button-...

Aug 7, 2025

Should We All Just Submit to Our eMTB Future?

　　It was last fall when I realized that everything had changed. First there were the back-to-back high-country rides where my friends and I were the only ones on mountain bikes without motors. Then there was the eleven-mile climb where a hiker squinted at my crankset, exclaimed, “No battery!” and began to clap. There was the exchange later that day with...

Aug 7, 2025

The Total Joy and Mayhem of Being Albert Lin

　　With all the expeditions he’s been a part of, all the technology he’s developed, all the discoveries he’s covered, I’m used to Albert Lin being one of the more interesting people in a room—or even the most well-known. But walking down the street in Quito, Ecuador, I didn’t realize he was this famous. 　　We are headed to a coffee shop...