Nepal's Department of Tourism is determined to enlarge its list of 8,000m peaks by adding six secondary summits on ...

Interview with British mountaineer Jon Griffith on expedition in Nepal where Sherpa Tenji will attempt the famous Everest - Lhotse traverse without supplementary oxygen. Griffith is coordinating the ...

Often called the "Valley of Silence," the Western Cwm is a broad, flat, gently undulating glacial valley basin terminating at the foot of the Lhotse Face. The central section is cut by massive ...

At the end of December a Japanese expedition led by Osamu Tanabe managed to climb the south Fasce of Lhotse (8516m) in winter, but turned back 40m short of the summit. Many expeditions are in the ...

A team of 12 military personnel and 18 climbers working as part of Nepal's mountain clean-up campaign on Everest and adjoining peaks Lhotse and Nuptse retrieved the doomed adventurers - including ...

McKenzie summited his first of the fourteen peaks at the age of 17 on Lhotse – the fourth highest mountain in the world. Less ...

The list of globally recognised eight-thousanders in Nepal includes Everest (8,848.86 metres), Kanchenjunga (8,586 metres), ...