Every year, hundreds of mountaineers try to reach the top of Mount Everest, the 29,032-foot-tall peak on the border of Nepal ...

As of September, everyone on the mountain must be accompanied by an expert guide, improving safety but potentially ...

The area around Mount Everest, about 75 kilometres (50 miles) southwest of the epicentre, was empty in the depth of winter when even some residents move away to escape the cold. Nepalese people ...

It was also the year that Ernest Z. Sawyer Jr. opened Sawyer’s Bowladrome in Northborough Center.

A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake centered about 50 miles from Mount Everest left at least 95 dead in Tibet on Tuesday, reports say. Another 130 people have been injured on the Chinese side of ...

and the Mount Everest scenic area on the Chinese side was closed. Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for all-out efforts to rescue people, minimize casualties and resettle those whose homes were ...

and the Mount Everest scenic area on the Chinese side was closed after the quake. About 1,500 fire and rescue workers were deployed to search for people, the Ministry of Emergency Management.

People in northeastern Nepal strongly felt the earthquake, but there were no initial reports of injuries or damage, according to the country’s National Emergency Operation Center. The area around ...