Nepal's Department of Tourism recently added four Kangchenjunga secondary summits and two Lhotse subpeaks to its list of 8,000m peaks. We examine the climbing history of Kangchenjunga's subpeaks ...

The Sikkim Bhutia Lepcha Apex Committee (SIBLAC) urges intervention to halt a joint Indo-Nepal Army expedition to Mt.

This has to be one of Nepal's most confusing peaks. Barely hours after we read of a mysterious expedition to Sharphu IV, a 6,000'er near Kangchenjunga, with just one person on the permit, we received ...

One of the most interesting expeditions of the season left Kathmandu today toward two isolated peaks in the Kangchenjunga region of eastern Nepal. Peter Hamor of Slovakia, plus Nives Meroi and ...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday flagged off an Indian Army-led expedition to Mt. Everest, comprising 34 climbers.

The Sikkim Bhutia Lepcha Apex Committee (SIBLAC) on Friday wrote to Governor OP Mathur seeking his immediate intervention to ...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh flagged off several mountaineering expeditions, led by the Indian Army, to Mt. Everest and Mt.

The expedition to Mount Everest will be led by Colonel Anshuman Bhadauria, while the one to Kangchenjunga will be led by Colonel Ranveer Singh Jamwal. The latter journey, commencing on April 7 ...

Minister of State for Defence Sanjay Seth on Wednesday flagged off an expedition to Mount Everest, aimed at providing invaluable "first-hand Everest experience" to instructors, enabling them to train ...

On the reading list this week is an omnibus edition of Frank S Smythe’s writing that offers a view of early Himalayan ...

This film is a journey to the Himalayas, on Goeche La trek. The film portraits his journey from Kolkatta to Yuksam and his trekking from Yuksam to Goechala pass via Tshoka, Lamuney. trekking over ...