Nepal is planning to restrict expeditions to Mt Everest only to those mountaineers who have climbed at least one peak above 7 ...

The new bill aims to address overcrowding, safety, and ecological concerns on the world's highest mountain. It's doubtful to ...

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

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

When open-to-all regime ends, a mountaineer must have summited a 7,000-metre peak before attempting the world's highest peak.

Krishna Pokharel writes about life, politics, business, environment, religion and culture in India and the Himalayan region for The Wall Street Journal.

On Easter Sunday, an Italian helicopter pilot named Simone Moro received word of a SOS call on 26,545-foot Annapurna in Nepal. Moro told Outside that a Ukrainian climber was suffering from altitude ...

Earlier today, a huge serac collapsed in Everest's Khumbu Icefall. Luckily, no one was injured, but the shifting ice did ...

Our Everest correspondent recently attended a pre-climb meeting held by guiding company Seven Summit Treks in downtown ...

A new drone service is delivering supplies such as ladders and oxygen cylinders on Mount Everest, making it safer for Sherpas and cutting the time it takes to get supplies up the mountain – as well as ...

Didier Delsalle landed on the top of Everest in a Eurocopter AS 350 B3. This feat went down as the highest helicopter landing ...