With the aim of releasing the Himalayan Climate Charter 2025, the Nepal Mountaineering Association, Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural ...

Between mid-April and mid-May, the drones operated by Nepal-based firm Airlift Tech­nology handled more than 280kg of refuse, according to the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee, a local ...

National Statistics Office data show six percent of maternal deaths were due to self-harm (suicide), with most cases ...

Sherpas working on Mount Everest carry 20 kilograms (44 pounds) per person, navigated a four hour hike through the ...

“We’re very happy,” said Lhakpa Nuru Sherpa, a 33-year-old Sherpa at local expeditions firm Asian Trekking who has reached ...

Human waste, empty oxygen cylinders, kitchen leftovers and discarded ladders. Sherpas working on Mount Everest carry all that ...

Over 16,000 people were infected with the potentially fatal disease last year as the parasite spread beyond rural areas.

Radio Sagarmatha was set up in the late 1990s, ushering in Nepal's community radio revolution. FM radios were however heavily censored following Gyanendra's 2005 coup. They were only allowed to play ...

Mingma G, who runs Imagine Nepal Treks Pvt. Ltd, also holds the record for the most summits of Manaslu without oxygen. Out of his 7 summits, he reached the foresummit 4 times and the main summit 3 ...

Nearly five months after Nepal’s Supreme Court struck down a law allowing infrastructure development inside protected areas, ...

Rising temperatures and intense human activity are destabilising the icy terrain, risking the lives of climbers and sherpas.