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The IMAX documentary following ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson on the north side of Everest opens in theatres and on IMAX screens on 30 October 2026. KCRA reports that Morrison, who lives in Tahoe City, previewed the film at an event in Olympic Valley in September. Film Threat reviewed it at the Toronto International Film Festival and credits Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin as directors.
Everest's Kangshung Face rises around 3,350 metres from the Kangshung Glacier to the summit and was first climbed by an American team in October 1983. A profile published by Gripped traces the wall from the 1921 British reconnaissance through to the Neverest Buttress climb of 1988. Here is what that account says, and which parts of it rest on a single telling.
Two Polish firsts on Everest, sixteen months apart: Wanda Rutkiewicz became the first European woman on the summit on 16 October 1978, climbing with anaemia, and Leszek Cichy and Krzysztof Wielicki made the first winter ascent on 17 February 1980.
Law professor Manasvi Agarwal of Udaipur reached the summit of Everest in May 2026 and was treated for severe frostbite in Kathmandu after a long descent to Camp 2. Bhaskar English reports she climbed Elbrus, Kilimanjaro, Vinson, Aconcagua and Everest between August 2025 and May 2026. Two members of her Everest team died on the mountain. She says Denali and a peak in Australia are next.
Forty years ago, on 16 October 1986, Reinhold Messner stood on Lhotse and became the first person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, every one without bottled oxygen. Seven weeks later he finished his own version of the 7 summits on Vinson.
Four Russian climbers spent two days breaking trail in an unprepared Khumbu Icefall, turned back near 5,800 metres, and climbed to the Lho La in a single day instead. They now stand at the foot of Everest's West Ridge, with the whole south side to themselves.
Beck Weathers was left for dead twice on the South Col in May 1996, woke from a hypothermic coma and walked into Camp IV. A Polish retelling this week starts years earlier: a Dallas pathologist who climbed his way out of depression, and a marriage that came through the storm.
A Kazakh dentist, Dr Aijan Jumabayeva, plans the first dental clinic at Everest Base Camp for spring 2027. Treatment will be free, Sherpas, guides and porters come first, and fifteen volunteer dentists will work in shifts at 5,364 metres.
Eva Steinwald stood on top of Everest on 18 May 2025, at 63, briefly the oldest American woman to have done so. Widowed in 2018, she has set herself the 7 summits by 70. Aconcagua, Denali, Everest and Kilimanjaro are done, and Vinson and Carstensz Pyramid are next.
CNN reported on 10 October 2026 that DNA testing has confirmed the climber known to generations of Everest mountaineers as "Green Boots" was Dorje Morup, an Indian climber who served in the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and died in a storm on the north side in May 1996. Samples were taken from the body by a small Sherpa team and analysed at a laboratory in India. A recovery operation is now being planned, and it would be one of the hardest retrievals ever attempted above 8,000 metres.
Speaking on Jan Frodeno's Going Mental podcast, Kilian Jornet said a stretch of his 2017 Everest climb is simply gone from his memory. He was above 8,000 metres, without supplementary oxygen, and had gone roughly 30 hours without eating. The account was reported by La Vanguardia and carried by Clarin.
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