A fatal race made Tracee Metcalfe the closest to becoming the first American woman to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter ...

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

The commercialised operations are costing the mountain community precious livelihood, eroding their cultural way of life and ...

Here in Part II, we break down what it takes to do Nepal's 1,750km Great Himalayan Trail, both guided and unguided.

The price of a permit to climb the world’s highest peak will rise 36 percent later this year. Guides believe that climbers ...

According to Glacier Himalaya Treks and Expedition, a private group of experienced mountaineers that offers tours, the permit ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35% ... to $7,500 and $3,750 respectively. Some expedition organisers said the increase, under discussion since last ...

BEIJING--China has canceled attempts to climb Mount Everest from its side of the world's highest peak because of fears of importing COVID-19 cases from neighboring Nepal, state media reported.

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The short flight from Kathmandu to Lukla offers the first true sense of the expedition’s scale ... be trekking to our ultimate destination: Everest Base Camp, some 5,364m above sea level.