Mount Everest's Hillary Step collapses, mountaineers confirm

ABC News Australia ^ | 21 May 2017 5:30 PDT | staff writers

[blueplum]

A famous feature near the summit of Mount Everest, known as the Hillary Step, has collapsed, potentially making the world's highest peak even more dangerous for climbers. Last year, pictures appeared to show a change in shape to the 12-metre rocky outcrop, named after Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to scale the mountain. It is thought to have been destroyed in Nepal's 2015 earthquake, but snow coverage made the news hard to confirm. British mountaineer Tim Mosedale confirmed the collapse after he reached the summit this week. "It's official — The Hillary Step is no more," he said in a Facebook post. "Not sure what's going to happen when the snow ridge doesn't form because there's some huge blocks randomly perched hither and thither which will be quite tricky to negotiate."

[blueplum]

Hillary is no more.

[JoeProBono]

[mass55th]

I saw Hillary collapse last September.

[digger48]

Hillary has had a problem with steps for several years now.

[MountainWalker]

Send in the black van

[ClearCase_guy]

This feature on Everest has been there ever since Hillary Clinton built it in 1952.

[ealgeone]

And then again in November!

[Noumenon]

Well, there goes my vacation.

[Sacajaweau]

Hillary who?

[Noumenon]

Was that before or after she sharted herself?

[Rome2000]

Like a side of skanky beef.

[deweyfrank]

Well, she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, you know. /s

[txhurl]

And grab that lost shoe

[clearcarbon]

"Mount Everest's Hillary Step collapses"

Mountains doing what comes naturally.

[FirstFlaBn]

I told you Globull Warming was series.

[MUDDOG]

First the Old Man of the Mountain, now the Old Woman.

[beethovenfan]

...and hugh!

[LostInBayport]

It couldn't stand the pressure.

[SaxxonWoods]

She’s going to be crushed. She was named after the guy that step is named for!!!!

[Enchante]

Hillary..... step...... collapse.....??

OLD NEWS!!