The Earth's roof is rising by two millimeters every year. Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth, has grown between 15 and 50 meters in the last 89,000 years, much more than the other eight-thousanders that make up the Himalayas. This is a geological anomalySince the altitudes of mountains in the same mountain range should be similar, researchers from University College London and the China University of Geosciences may have solved this problem. In a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience They have shown that erosion of the Arun Gorge, a river near Everest, is pushing the mountain's summit upward. The summit already measures 8,849 meters (28,500 feet) high, some 250 meters (860 feet) above the next highest peak, K2. According to the researchers, the Arun has carved a significant gorge over millennia, carrying billions of tons of soil and sediment from the base of Everest. This has caused the pressure exerted on the mountain from beneath the Earth's crust, as a result of this constant erosion, to be greater than the force of gravity. This is a phenomenon called isostatic reboundThis occurs when the crust loses too much material and deforms, and the liquid mantle inside the Earth sends great pressure upwards. This would explain why Everest is noticeably taller than the other eight-thousanders in the Himalayas.

At least 350 people trekking in Tibet were rescued "safe and sound" after a snowstorm hit the area surrounding Mount Everest. The heavy snowfall surprised the trekkers on Saturday night, October 4, at an altitude of approximately 4,200 meters above sea level. The storm buried several tents and cut off various points along the route that runs through the Gamma Valley on the eastern slope of Everest.

"We have reached the summit." Forty years ago, at four in the afternoon on August 28, 1985, Catalan was spoken for the first time atop Everest, the highest peak on the planet. News that filled an entire country with pride. That "We have reached the summit" became a generational cry, a motto of the Catalonia that would become an Olympic champion. People incorporated it into their vocabulary, and thousands welcomed the heroes when they returned home. Curiously, though, the phrase uttered at the summit by Òscar Cadiach was "Catalonia has reached the roof of the world."

"When I climbed Everest, I felt close to my father," says mountaineer Jamling Tenzing Norgay (Darjeeling, India, 1965). A man who introduces himself as a Sherpa, he is aware that he still has to explain many times that a Sherpa is not someone who helps climbers reach summits by carrying their gear on their backs. The Sherpas are a people who have lived for centuries in the shadow of the highest peaks on the planet. A people who historically didn't want to climb the peaks because the deities lived there. But everything changed when the Westerners arrived. "Our relationship with the mountains is different, but the arrival of Western climbers changed everything. Now we live off it. In my family, there are now twelve of us who have reached the top of Everest," explains Jamling. The first was his father, the legendary Tenzing Norgay, the man who accompanied New Zealander Edmund Hillary when, in 1953, they became the first to summit the highest mountain on the planet.