Nepal, the landlocked Himalayan country settled between China and India, is regularly hailed as the extreme goal for t ...

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Nepal will issue Everest permits only to climbers with experience of scaling at least one of the Himalayan nation’s 7,000-meter (22,965 ft) peaks, according to the draft of a new law aimed at ...

Nepal is set to pass a law to grant permits to climb Mount Everest only to those who have previously scaled at least one 7,000-metre peak within the country, marking a major shift for the tourism ...

Arriving on Mount ... Everest's most experienced foreign guides, leading one of the very first commercial expeditions to the summit in 1992, and four more times since. He's also unconvinced that ...

April 25 has been a day of devastation for Nepal. It was on this day 10 years ago when the ... reported consequences of the quake was the avalanche it triggered on Mount Everest. At the time, many ...

During his journey, Ayers will encounter sub-tropical conditions in the foothills, sub-zero temperatures at Everest, and almost every type of microclimate in between. Want to stay up on Outside ...

The Everest region recorded the arrival of 694 tourists on Monday alone, according to the Sagarmatha National Park Office in Namche ... Agencies' Association of Nepal. "The region is finally ...

he said.Around the same time, Raj Bikram, CEO of Airlift Nepal, was in touch with the Khumbu municipality for 3D-mapping Mount Everest using drones when the region’s mayor asked how much weight ...

Yes, these worlds form a comet-like tail of materials evaporating away, and this one is losing the equivalent of Mount Everest to space every single orbit. The planet orbits its star every 30.5 ...