Nepal’s mountaineering community has celebrated the 72nd anniversary of the conquest of the world’s highest peak ...

A new proposal from Nepal aims to tighten requirements and improve climber safety on the world's tallest peak, but such ...

Our Everest reporter explains the biggest stories from the 2025 season: fewer fatalities than in 2024, a narrow weather ...

They make practice runs to the lower camps on Everest before beginning their final attempt on the peak. Nepal’s government last year funded a team of soldiers and Sherpas to remove 11 tonnes of ...

They make practice runs to the lower camps on Everest before beginning their final attempt on the peak. Nepal’s government last year funded a team of soldiers and Sherpas to remove 11 tons ...

Hundreds of climbers and their Sherpa guides scaled Mount Everest this month in Nepal, struggling against harsh weather to ...

Nepal contains eight of the highest peaks in the world and every year hundreds of foreign climbers fly to the country in South Asia to tackle the mountains.

Kathmandu marked International Everest Day with climbers and guides. The event celebrated Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's historic climb. Nepal recognizes the mountaineering community's ...

Sandro Gromen/Associated Press Supported by By Jonathan Wolfe and Bhadra Sharma Jonathan Wolfe reported from London, and Bhadra Sharma from Kathmandu, Nepal. Climbing Mount Everest typically takes ...

Kami Rita Sherpa, a famed Nepali mountain guide, completed his 31st climb of Mount Everest on Tuesday, breaking his own ...

The event Thursday marked the 72nd anniversary of the first summit climb of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953, by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay. Nepal's minister for ...

Four British climbers made it from London to the peak in under five days after preparations that included inhaling xenon gas.