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

Even if Sherpas reach the body, retrieval is tough—especially if it's in a hard-to-access spot or at an altitude too high for helicopters to operate safely ...

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

I was on top of the world and it felt surreal," an elated Aritra Roy said.� In a remarkable feat of determination, endurance ...

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

The spring climbing season has come to an end on Mt. Everest. The annual phenomenon of the Jet Stream moving several hundred miles north of the Himalayas, which ...

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

Mount Everest was first scaled 70 years ago. Climbers celebrate the milestone as climate change concerns grow Nepal is celebrating 70 years since Mount Everest was successfully scaled for the ...

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 ...