Editing Mount Everest (section)

=== 2020s ===
Both Nepal and China prohibited foreign climbing groups during the 2020 season, due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. 2020 was the third year in this decade after 2014 and 2015 which saw no summits from the Nepal (South) Side.<ref>{{Cite web|date=13 March 2020|title=COVID-19 shuts down Everest|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/2020/03/will-coronavirus-shut-down-everest/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200314191538/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/2020/03/will-coronavirus-shut-down-everest/|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 March 2020|access-date=19 September 2020|website=Adventure}}</ref>

A team of Chinese surveyors climbed Mount Everest from the North side during April–May 2020, becoming the only climbers to summit the world's highest peak during the pandemic, at least through May. The team was there to re-measure the height of Mount Everest.<ref>{{cite news|last=Khadka|first=Navin Singh|date=27 May 2020|title=Chinese team scale Everest during pandemic|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52819738|access-date=31 January 2021|archive-date=31 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531185450/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52819738|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 12 May 2022, the first all-Black team summited Mount Everest. Seven men and two women climbers from the U.S. and Kenya, guided by eight sherpas, comprised the expedition.<ref>{{cite web | last=Cluff | first=Jilli | title=Mt. Everest History: First All-Black Expedition Team Summits World's Highest Peak | website=GearJunkie | date=12 May 2022 | url=https://gearjunkie.com/climbing/full-circle-everest-all-black-summit | access-date=13 May 2022 | archive-date=12 April 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412051401/https://gearjunkie.com/climbing/full-circle-everest-all-black-summit | url-status=live }}</ref>

On 15 May 2025, [[Nick Symmonds]], a retired American middle distance runner, reached the summit, thus becoming the first person to both summit Mount Everest and run a [[Four-minute mile|sub four-minute mile]]. Symmonds holds a 3:56.72 mile personal best that he set in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-16 |title=King of the Side Quests: Olympian Nick Symmonds Just Climbed Mount Everest |url=https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a64792990/nick-symmonds-climbs-mount-everest/ |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=Runner's World |language=en-US}}</ref>

On 18 May 2025, British mountaineer Kenton Cool completed his 19th ascent of Mount Everest, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world's highest mountain by a non-Sherpa guide.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Press |first=Associated |date=2025-05-18 |title=British mountaineer breaks his own record for most Everest climbs by a non-Nepali |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/18/travel/kenton-cool-everest-summit-record-intl-hnk |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref>