As the Diplomat reports, leisure helicopter rides have been banned since January 1 in Nepal's Sagarmatha National Park.

Nepal has sharply increased the climbing permit fees for Qomolangma, which is also known as Mount Everest in the West, and ...

Climbing Mt. Everest is an undeniably ambitious achievement. If this is an undertaking you wish to accomplish, here is our ...

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What is the highest place on earth? You might say Mount Everest, towering at more than 29,035 feet above sea level, is the highest point on our planet. That’s a ...

We were five Americans, our guide Sunil and six Sherpa porters. Our trek was from Lukla, Nepal to Mount Everest base camp.

In 2010, at the age of 22 years and seven months, Norris became the youngest British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest ...

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, accompanied by his wife Sudesh Dhankhar, cast their votes at the CPWD Service Centre in ...

FOR many years Birr man Michael Delaney has harboured a deep grá for the Great Outdoors and adventure, a desire and drive ...

requiring climbers to rely on supplemental oxygen to survive the ordeal. The experience is akin to trying to breathe through ...