Seven-member team led by Nurbu Wangchu Sherpa opened the route to the 6,812-metre peak as Nepal issued 178 climbing permits ...

Nine victims have already been located, but dangerous terrain and logistical challenges are slowing efforts to recover the remaining bodies. Recovery operations on Pakistan's Broad Peak resumed on ...

Four army helicopters rescue 82 people, including nine foreign nationals, after a debris-laden surge sweeps through ...

Nepali climbers call off final attempt on world’s seventh-highest peak after heavy snow, strong winds and falling ...

Acclaimed mountaineer signals a possible retreat from high-altitude climbing after leading a perilous operation to recover fallen companions, including Nimsdai. Mingma Gyaljen Sherpa, the renowned ...

Pakistani mountaineer Sirbaz Khan makes history by conquering Mount Kangchenjunga without supplementary oxygen, completing all 14 of the world’s highest peaks. Renowned Pakistani mountaineer Sirbaz ...

Nepali mountaineer Pemba Gelje Sherpa on Wednesday summited Mount Manaslu (8,163m) in 12 hours, that too without using bottled oxygen, setting a new record of speed climb of the world’s eighth highest ...

Fifteen Nepali high-altitude workers died at Himlung Himal, leaving families without breadwinners and renewing questions over ...

For 72-year-old Hem Bahadur Rai and his 69-year-old wife, Amrit Maya, grief has come in waves — first the disappearance of ...

An outpouring of grief has swept across the global mountaineering community as tributes flood social media and climbing forums for Nirmal Purja, widely known as Nimsdai with fans and fellow climbers ...

A debris-laden surge swept away houses, bridges and a hydropower project in Gorkha district, leaving around a dozen people ...

Record 493 foreign climbers came to Nepal’s eighth-highest mountain, but deep snow and worsening conditions have brought the ...