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

Nepal has officially ended solo expeditions on Everest and other 8,000-metre peaks by amending its mountaineering regulations ...

Nepal has hiked the cost of an Everest climbing permit by a third, arguing it will help tackle pollution and boost safety on ...

Nepal has hiked the cost of an Everest permit, arguing it will help tackle pollution and boost safety on the world's highest mountain.

Ngima Nuru Sherpa is small in stature, but he stands tall in the annals of Mount Everest. The 5-foot-7, 150-pound native of ...

Nepal has implemented new regulations requiring one mountain guide for every two climbers on peaks above 8,000 meters, ...

The Everest Base Camp trek offers a bucket-list adventure for trekkers worldwide, with costs varying significantly based on ...

Helicopters are a key means of transport and crucial for emergency rescue in many remote regions around mountainous Nepal ... home to Mount Everest, the world's highest peak.

For Indian pilgrims, visiting Mount Kailash and Lake Mansarovar has always been challenging as it falls in the Tibet region ... it is not as big and tall as Everest, K2, and other great peaks.

It comes as something of a surprise that the history of a pursuit that seems to uniquely combine risk and vanity should be so ...

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the northern foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet’s holiest ... for climbers and hikers in Nepal, with a German climber the lone mountaineer with a permit to ...