Before that, he'd done the same on Manaslu (8,163m), Broad Peak (8,051m) and Shishapangma (8,027m) and won the ‘Snow Leopard’ award for climbing the five highest peaks of the former Soviet Union.

Former banker Naila Kiani thought long and hard about resuming her challenge before taking on Mount Kanchenjunga (8,586 metres), the third-highest mountain in the world, on May 23, almost two years ...

Nepal's Sherpas deserve more, says teenager who scaled world's 14 tallest peaks "I want to see Sherpas as global athletes, not just guides," says Nima Rinji Sherpa, 18.