Sherpas are the porters and guides who risk their lives to help others reach the summit of Everest, often with little ...

Everest today is a booming, multi-million-dollar, high-altitude industry. Guided climbs fetch six-figure sums and Base Camp, ...

The plan, drafted by the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, will run from 2025 to 2029 and keep Nepal's mountains clean while making climbing safer.

KATHMANDU- As Nepal’s high mountains, including Mount Everest, have been struggling with decades of waste accumulation, the ...

Two Nepali mountain guides have been awarded South Korea’s prestigious Golden Ice Axe for their role in a high-risk body ...

High-altitude guiding may be one of the most brutal dream jobs on earth. A longtime pro shares the good—and the bad.

Nepal should raise the permit fee for climbing Mount Everest to half a million dollars to protect the mountain's fragile ...

When the iconic American television show went on a 10-day trek to the Mount Everest Base Camp, the team knew they were in for ...

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Geekvape didn’t choose a conventional milestone—it chose the highest one on Earth. Earlier ...

The U.S. runner will chase Kilian Jornet's 2017 North Side record of 26 hours from Base Camp to summit. He also intends to ...

Mount Everest, standing tall at 8,849 metres on the Nepal-China border, has long symbolised human ambition and natural grandeur. Known as Sagarmatha in Nepal, the mountain draws hundreds of climbers ...