Mountaineers Miguel Mapalad and Jeno Panganiban recount the extraordinary experience and the many challenges they had to ...

"To the discerning eye, other mountains are visible—giants between 23,000 and 26,000 feet high. Not one of their slenderer ...

After climbing the tallest peak in six continents, there was only one left for Duke Pigott to scale — Mount Everest. After 17 years, including delays during the pandemic and mountainside illness, ...

The climbing season on Mount Everest peaks in late May and early June every year. Extreme weather patterns at this location ...

The Department of Conservation (DOC) has approved filming on Malte Brun Pass near the Tasman Glacier and near the Hochstetter Icefall on the eastern side of Aoraki/Mount Cook, which will ‘double’ as ...

The Department of Conservation (DOC) approved filming on Malte Brun Pass near the Tasman Glacier and near the Hochstetter ...

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

Chomolungma may mean “the divine mother of the world” in Tibetan, but her ways are tough and treacherous. Only those with a passion that surpasses every human w ...

Rumpa Das and Subrata Ghosh climbed Mt Everest. He didn’t make it back, she did. Between the two of them, they frame the ...

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

With recent cuts to USAID, and dangerous over-crowding on the world’s highest peak, Nepal faces serious challenges. Two ...

Last month, as the 2025 climbing season began on Mount Everest, Nepal’s upper house of Parliament introduced a tourism bill that includes a suite of new rules that would significantly raise the ...