Here in the UK it is the start of Winter.

Just for clarification, according to who?

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/le ... nter-start

I have never heard anyone using that definition.

It would certainly not be considered a winter ascent in the Himalaya.

Interesting thread though.

Scott wrote:

Here in the UK it is the start of Winter.

Just for clarification, according to who?

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/le ... nter-start

I have never heard anyone using that definition.

It would certainly not be considered a winter ascent in the Himalaya.

Ok, my mistake, an Autumn ascent.

Possible 10 year Ban on Everest

A committee in Nepal is recommending that the government ban an Indian couple who faked there summit claim with a 10 year ban on Mount Everest.

Possible 10 year Ban on Everest

Puma concolor wrote:Score one for BuzzFeed.

What do you mean by that?

Everest May One Day Be Ice Free

Glaciers may vanish by the end of this century, making the Mount Everest Khumbu Icefall and Lhotse Face become a rock scramble instead.

Everest May One Day Be Ice Free

Fake Everest Claim: Couple BANNED

The Nepal government has imposed a 10-year ban on Pune’s police couple, Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod, who faked their Everest ascent by digitally altering photos.

Fake Everest Claim: Couple BANNED

New Poll

I have added a new poll question for the month of September.

If you were on the 1924 Everest Expedition who would you want as your climbing partner?

George Mallory
Noel Odell
Charles Bruce
Edward Norton
Theodore Somervell

Please take your vote at Mount Everest The British Story

Results from last months question

Xu Jing said he saw Irvine's body below the First Step in 1960, why didn’t any searches find him?

Xu Jing was mistaken 12%
Irvine was avalanched off 37%
They looked in the wrong place 37%
Something else 14%

Climbers going for New Everest Records

With the start of this year’s autumn climbing season, the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest, is all set to receive two renowned climbers from different continents as they aim to set the new records in the climbing history.

Climbers going for New Everest Records

68yr old Aiming for Everest in 2017

Malaysia’s oldest mountaineer 68 year old James Lee Chong Meng will begin training soon to prepare himself to conquer Mount Everest in April next year.

68yr old Aiming for Everest in 2017

Everest Climbers are Spoon Fed

Santosh Yadav, the first woman to climb Mount Everest twice, on Sunday blamed commercialisation for the series of deaths which has plagued mountaineering this season and created a bad publicity for the adventure sport.

Everest Climbers are Spoon Fed

Historic Mountaineering Images

A National Archive of Historic Mountaineering Images is to be launched by the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) later this year.

Historic Mountaineering Images

The Epic of Everest

Thursday 22nd September 2016 - BBC 4 - 10pm

A remarkable film record of the legendary Everest expedition of 1924, newly restored by the BFI National Archive.

The Epic of Everest

Everest Attempt Postponed

Kilian Jornet returns from Everest without having climbed the world’s highest mountain. Bad weather conditions during the final stage of the expedition have forced him to abandon the attempt to climb Everest via the north face.

Everest Attempt Postponed