The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh are undertaking the six-day trip to celebrate the UK's close ties with the country.

The list of globally recognised eight-thousanders in Nepal includes Everest (8,848.86 metres), Kanchenjunga (8,586 metres), ...

Due to the incredible feedback from customers, the Everest Revisited exhibition, in the main Gallery at Rheged near Penrith, has been extended ...

The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh have kicked off their first-ever official visit to Nepal, with their engagements set to ...

A magnitude 7.8 tremor struck near Nepal’s capital Kathmandu in 2015, killing about 9,000 people and injuring thousands in the country’s worst ever earthquake. Among the dead were at least 18 people ...

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Over 400 people trapped by rubble in earthquake-stricken Tibet were rescued, Chinese officials said on Wednesday, with an unknown number still unaccounted for after a tremor rocked the Himalayan ...

Last weekend he was guiding a trek to the Everest Base Camp and included his 17-year-old ... that if there were ever to be an earthquake in Nepal, the worst hit would be Kathmandu — and the ...

Foreign climbers who want to try reaching the top of the 29,032-foot-tall peak will face higher permit fees in Nepal starting ...

Wang Lama Humla via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Every year, hundreds of mountaineers try to reach the top of Mount Everest, the 29,032-foot-tall peak on the border of Nepal and Tibet.

WARMUP AND WHAT FOLLOWS. COMING UP. USGS IS REPORTING ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE FELT IN THE GRANITE STATE THIS MORNING. IT’S REPORTING A 2.0 EARTHQUAKE ABOUT 11.8 MILES OFF THE COAST OF PORTSMOUTH.