Drone Mishap On Everest Sparks Safety Debate For High-Altitude Cargo Missions

Everest Glacier Collapse and Drone Emergency - Gripped Magazine

Hundreds of climbers are currently at the Everest base camp in hopes of summiting this season. Earlier this week, a large serac collapsed on the Khumbu Icefall at Mount Everest, but luckily nobody was injured. The event took out part of the fixed route installed by the Icefall Doctors this spring. The collapse occurred where long aluminium ladders had been installed there – see below. The Icefall Doctors were quick to fix the problem and reinsta…

Drone Mishap On Everest Sparks Safety Debate For High-Altitude Cargo Missions

On Mount Everest, a DJI FlyCart 30 cargo drone operated by Nepal’s Airlift Technology encountered a gust-induced emergency landing at 19,685 feet, halting operations for four days and igniting concerns about the safety of heavy-lift drones in extreme environments. This incident, the first significant setback for drones revolutionizing logistics on the world’s highest peak, underscores the delicate balance between innovation and risk in high-stak…

One of Everest's New Drones Forced to Make Emergency Landing » Explorersweb

The drones used this year on Everest have not flown for the last four days. One of them was rumored to have crashed, but the facts are not so dramatic. "Our drone's emergency parachute got auto-deployed at 6,000m due to a gust of high wind, so it landed near Camp 1," engineer Raj Bikram Maharjan of Airlift Technology, the Nepal-based company in charge of operating the drones, told ExplorersWeb from Base Camp. "It didn't crash, but one of the dro…

CNN Portugal