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• Amateur footage shows ferocity of blizzard in Himalayas - video

  Video (1min 48sec), 19 Oct 2014:

  Amateur footage shot by British hiker Paul Sherridan shows the deadly blizzard that engulfed Nepal's popular Annapurna trail in the Himalayas

• Nepal rescuers find 11 more bodies, as death toll mounts

  18 Oct 2014: Search teams find 60 more people alive while Britons are among those still missing following storm disaster

• Everest diaries of mountaineer Edward Norton to be published

  30 Sep 2014: Book reveals memories of record-setting climber who led 1924 expedition when George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared

• Ice axe said to be Everest hero's sold for £132,000, but was it really his?

  27 Sep 2014: Doubts are raised whether the axe auctioned at Christie's was the one used by George Mallory in the 1922 rescue of three fellow climbers

• Climber escapes after crevasse fall in Nepal – video

  Video (1min 57sec), 24 May 2014:

  US researcher John All made this extraordinary video after he fell about 21 metres (70ft) down a crevasse on Mount Himlung in Nepal while collecting snow samples

• Beyond the Edge review - 1950s storytelling for an account of the 1953 Everest ascent

  

  22 May 2014: This telling of Hillary and Norgay's 1953 Everest ascent takes the well-trodden route - not always to its advantage, writes Steve Rose

• Everest's Sherpas fear for livelihood after killer avalanche

  26 Apr 2014: One of the first reporters to reach the place where tragedy struck last week on the grief, anger and calls for change

• Nepalese official calls for avalanche barriers on Everest in wake of disaster

  26 Apr 2014: Call for ski-resort-style barriers comes as virtually all expedition teams give up on climbing Everest from Nepal this season

• The 20 photographs of the week

  Gallery (20 pictures), 26 Apr 2014:

  Everest, South Korea, Anzac Day, Ukraine … the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week

• Climbing Everest is the peak of hubris

  23 Apr 2014:

  Tanya Gold: With Sherpas treated like pack animals by the cretinous rich, the crisis of the world's highest mountain was inevitable

• Should Mount Everest be shut down as a mark of respect?

  Poll, 21 Apr 2014:

  The Nepalese government is considering cancelling expeditions to Everest for the rest of the year, after an avalanche killed 13 sherpas last week. Should the mountain be closed to climbers for a period of time?

• Everest jump called off after avalanche

  21 Apr 2014:

  Joby Ogwyn jump cancelled as Nepal considers halting all expeditions for rest of year after death of 13 Sherpas on Friday

• Everest Sherpas divided over call to halt climbs after fatal avalanche

  20 Apr 2014:

  Some want expeditions cancelled for the rest of the year as a mark of respect for the dead, but others fear loss of income

• One body found as Sherpas count cost of Everest's deadliest avalanche

  20 Apr 2014:

  Survivors flown by helicopter to Kathmandu

• Everest avalanche victims' bodies returned to families - video

  Video (1min 16sec), 19 Apr 2014:

  The bodies of some of the trek guides killed in an avalanche on Everest, Nepal, are removed from the morgue on Saturday

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