Our Everest reporter explains the biggest stories from the 2025 season: fewer fatalities than in 2024, a narrow weather ...

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay created history by summiting Mt Everest, the world's highest peak. On its anniversary, here ...

Subrata Ghosh, 45, from India, died on Thursday below the Hillary Step while returning after reaching the 8,849 metre (29,032 feet) peak.

New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. The two were part of the ...

so the Hillary Step as we once knew it no longer exists and has in large parts been replaced by a steep snow-covered slope. Intensely steep and complex, the North Face of Everest was first climbed ...

Scottish priest scales Everest to keep a Christmas vow — and plants a seed for Nepal’s first high-altitude parish.

It’s no secret that Mt. Everest has been polluted with trash, dead bodies, oxygen bottles and the like since the advent of ...

Cost is a major factor. The mission could cost upwards of Rs 1 crore. A lot depends on where the body is lying. Helicopters cannot operate in the ‘death zone’ above 8,000 metres. Sherpas have to reach ...

Renowned Nepalese Sherpa guide Kami Rita broke his own record for the most successful ascents of the Mount Everest, by ...

Nepal’s mountaineering community has celebrated the 72nd anniversary of the conquest of the world’s highest peak ...

Sherpa Kami Rita first reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1994, and he's now made the arduous trek to the top more than anyone else in the world.

Nepal pledged to support mountaineering and keep climbers safe as it welcomed many of those who have scaled Mount Everest to ...