Last week, an unidentified pair of climbers secured a permit to ascend Ghenye Liru, a 6,571m peak in Nepal’s Langtang region ...

After a snowy, windy week with climbers stuck in Base Camp, a long spell of good weather is about to begin. The first summits ...

For Mingmar Sherpa, a senior research support associate in the Martin Lab in the Department of Biology, community is more ...

Nepal is planning to restrict expeditions to Mt Everest only to those mountaineers who have climbed at least one peak above 7 ...

No longer will just any climber with ambition and a permit be able to attempt the world’s highest peak—Mount Everest. A new ...

Owner of Helisul Aviação, South America’s largest aviation operator, today arrived in Kathmandu to begin his tour of the Mt. Everest region.

Official data shows that since 1953’s Hillary-Norgay summit, around 9,000 mountaineers have successfully scaled Mt Everest ...

A new bill proposes much-needed reforms of rules governing climbing and cleaning up the mountain.

Nepal will issue Everest permits only to climbers with experience of scaling at least one of the Himalayan nation's ...

Climbing Everest is no easy feat, it is filled with risks and challenges. It requires not just physical fitness and ...