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- Lost on Everest (1996) http://www.outsideonline.com/o/outdoor-adventure/climbing/mountaineering/lost-on-everest 8 comments
- Mount Everest's melting ice reveals bodies of climbers lost in the "death zone" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mount-everest-melting-ice-reveals-climbers-bodies-death-zone-climate-change/ 400 comments sports
- ‘Over 70% of Everest glacier may be lost by 2100’ http://www.news.lk/news/world/item/7965-over-70-of-everest-glacier-may-be-lost-by-2100 18 comments worldnews
- ‘Over 70% of Everest glacier may be lost by 2100’ http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/over-70-of-everest-glacier-may-be-lost-by-2100-says-european-geosciences-union-study/article7250502.ece?homepage=true 109 comments worldnews
- Mount Everest has lost 2,000 years' worth of ice in less than three decades https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/03/asia/mount-everest-climate-ice-glacier-melt-intl/index.html 8 comments environment
- Man Who Lost 9 Fingertips To Frostbite Dies On Eighth Everest Attempt https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/man-who-lost-9-fingertips-to-frostbite-dies-on-eighth-everest-attempt-1854974 7 comments nottheonion
- Greenland has lost 140 billion tons of ice since 1992, with an Everest-sized mass plunging into the sea every year. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/science/131206/greenland-alaska-ice-melting-arctic-calamity-calling 12 comments worldnews
- TIL about Arunima Sinha, first female amputee to climb Mount Everest. She lost her right leg after thieves pushed her from a running train http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/arunima_sinha 6 comments india
- Rocky Mountain range has lost around 20 percent of the snow cover since 1980, with climate change caused by human activities thought partly responsible. Everest glaciers have shrunk by 13 percent in the last 50 years and the snowline has moved 180 meters uphill. http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2013/05/rockies-snowpack-loss 18 comments science
- Mount Everest’s highest glacier has lost 2,000 years of ice in the last 30 years, study finds https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/perpetual-planet-everests-highest-glacier-has-lost-2000-years-of-ice-in-30-years 2 comments science
- West Antarctic Melt Rate Has Tripled: The total amount of loss averaged 83 gigatons per year (91.5 billion U.S. tons). By comparison, Mt. Everest weighs about 161 gigatons, meaning the Antarctic glaciers lost an amount of water weight equivalent to Mt. Everest every two years. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-412&rn=news.xml&rst=4393 21 comments worldnews
- Hedge fund manager Marko Dimitrijevic is closing his largest hedge fund, Everest Capital's Global Fund, having lost almost all its money after the Swiss National Bank (SNB) scrapped its three-year-old cap on the franc against the euro. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/17/us-swiss-snb-everest-iduskbn0kq0n920150117 2 comments economy
- Most Sherpa mountain guides have decided to leave Mount Everest, a guide said, confirming a walkout certain to disrupt a climbing season that was already marked by grief over the lives lost last week in Everest's deadliest disaster. http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2014/0422/Sherpas-boycott-Mount-Everest-Is-climbing-season-over 40 comments worldnews
- Melting and sublimation on Mount Everest’s highest glacier due to human-induced climate change have reached the point that several decades of accumulation are being lost annually now that ice has been exposed. https://umaine.edu/news/blog/2022/02/03/human-induced-climate-change-impacts-the-highest-reaches-of-the-planet-mount-everest/ 5 comments science