Nepal, the landlocked Himalayan country settled between China and India, is regularly hailed as the extreme goal for t ...

"The two had just finished dinner and were settling into their sleeping bags, chatting casually, when Alex suddenly became ...

Fancy climbing the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest? You'll have to overcome some of these obstacles on your way ...

In his latest dispatch, our Everest reporter explains the crucial work done by rope-fixing teams. Plus, one climber’s global ...

If you want to climb the world’s tallest mountain, Nepal wants to see your résumé first. Turns out experience matters and for ...

Despite the extraordinary feats of Tabei and many other adventurous women, sexism and misogyny in mountaineering have persisted for decades.

Nepal plans to restrict Everest expeditions to experienced climbers above 7,000 meters to reduce deaths and pollution.

New safety measures for Mount Everest proposed by Nepal would require climbers to demonstrate previous high-altitude ...

Under the proposed rules, climbers must show proof of scaling a 7,000-metre (22,965 ft) mountain in Nepal before applying for ...

In his latest dispatch from the hike to Mount Everest Base Camp, the writer discusses how the booming tourism industry has ...

A team of rope-fixing climbers successfully scaled Mt Everest from Nepal side after they opened a climbing route to the ...

Official data shows that since 1953’s Hillary-Norgay summit, around 9,000 mountaineers have successfully scaled Mt Everest ...