"To the discerning eye, other mountains are visible—giants between 23,000 and 26,000 feet high. Not one of their slenderer ...

After climbing the tallest peak in six continents, there was only one left for Duke Pigott to scale — Mount Everest. After 17 years, including delays during the pandemic and mountainside illness, ...

Tall mountains rise on one side, and a steep cliff drops on the other. This is what you see when landing at Lukla Airport ...

Basak, 35, was felicitated by the India-Nepal joint mountaineering expedition team for summiting close to Mount Kanchenjunga.

A century after the disappearance of explorer George Mallory, his photos and diary offer a valuable baseline for ...

A STUDENT from Taunton took on the challenge of running the highest marathon in the world. Albie Jervis, Year 2 Business, Marketing and Management student at Richard Huish College, recently took on an ...

Arjun awardee and celebrated mountaineer Rita Gombu (Marwah), the first Indian woman who reached just below the 200 ft of Mount Everest in 1984, died in New Delhi in Thursday (June 12).

The Department of Conservation (DOC) has approved filming on Malte Brun Pass near the Tasman Glacier and near the Hochstetter Icefall on the eastern side of Aoraki/Mount Cook, which will ‘double’ as ...

The Department of Conservation (DOC) approved filming on Malte Brun Pass near the Tasman Glacier and near the Hochstetter ...

A mountaineering group climbed Mt. Everest door-to-door from Great Britain in just a week with the use of Xenon gas. Tenzing ...

Scottish priest scales Everest to keep a Christmas vow — and plants a seed for Nepal’s first high-altitude parish.

Led by newcomer Genden Phuntsok in the title role, Tenzing tells the story of Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay and his ...