IT takes most mountaineers at least 70 days to scale the world’s highest peak, as even the fittest athletes have to acclimatise their bodies to the deadly thin air on Mount Everest.  But ...

GILGIT: Pakistani mountaineer Sirbaz Khan has successfully summited the Annapurna peak in Nepal without using supplementary ...

This Everest season, Karl Egloff and Tyler Andrews will try speed ascents. Kaji Sherpa holds the record, set in 1998, but not ...

Babar Ali has become the first Bangladeshi to reach the summit of Annapurna I, an 8,091-metre peak in the Himalayas.  He ...

Department Director Liladhar Awasthi said permits were issued for expeditions to 29 peaks, including Everest. These include ...

The Sherpa rope fixers summited Ama Dablam earlier this week. Meanwhile, many teams are now on the way to Everest Base Camp.

Austrian guide Lukas Furtenbach will lead a one-week trip to the top of Everest and back this year. Prior to the ascent, he ...

Thame is a beautiful Himalayan hamlet located to the farther southwest of Everest, right below the sacred Khumbi-Yuhla.

In Nepal, granting permits for spring mountaineering has begun for this year. According to Nepal’s Department of Tourism, ...

In May, Andrews will depart Nepal’s Everest Base Camp and ascend the Khumbu Icefall, the Western Cwm, Lhotse Face, past the South Col and on to the 29,032-foot summit. The total distance is 9.3 miles, ...

But the possible ceasefire isn’t official yet. And besides, the Russian air force bomber base at Engels, near the city of Saratov in southern Russia, isn’t a power plant or an oil refinery.