Spiritual practitioners fear that legislation imposing prison time for vaguely defined occult services could cast a wide net.

A newly promoted trekking route leading to Annapurna I, the first mountain above 8,000 metres to be summited, has recently ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An expert mountain guide successfully put four of his clients on top of Mount Everest on Wednesday less than a week after they left London, one of the fastest ascents on ...

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A British climber who scaled Mount Everest for a record 19th time says he’s already planning his next attempt. Kenton Cool, 51 scaled the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) summit on Sunday before flying ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A British climber who scaled Mount Everest for the 19th time, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world’s highest peak by a non-Sherpa guide ...

Four British climbers became the first to scale Mount Everest on Wednesday using Xenon gas, which helped them save several weeks that mountaineers need to get used to high altitudes, an official ...

Filipino climber Miguel Mapalad shares how the Khumbu Icefall nearly broke him during his Everest ascent and what helped him ...

Mount Everest’s Icefall Doctors, the workers who build and maintain the route through the Khumbu Glacier, pursue a livelihood rooted in tradition and danger This area is the staging zone for the ...

KATHMANDU - Four former British special forces soldiers have set a startling new precedent on Mount Everest ... sustainability of Everest expeditions. KATHMANDU POST/ ASIA NEWS NETWORK ...

together with some members of the same Philippine Everest team, also climbed Mount Kinabalu in Malaysia in 2011 to become at age 81 at that time one of the oldest persons to scale Southeast Asia ...