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Mount Everest braces for potentially the busiest year yet on the worlds highest peak, prompting concerns about overcrowding and safety. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Nepal faces mountainous challenge identifying Everest bodies

Police and government officials admit they face huge challenge putting names to dead climbers and sending them back to...

9 Jun 2019 4:10 AM

Ameesha did her basic mountaineering course from NIM Uttarkashi Institute. She also completed her advance mountaineering, search and rescue and more courses. (Photo: Facebook | Ameesha Chauhan)

Meet Ameesha Chauhan, an Indian woman who survived deadly Mt Everest...

Completing the summit is a dream for some but it's actually a struggle and life-changing experience.

6 Jun 2019 9:42 AM

All-time high: A young mountaineer's pursuit of summits in seven...

Amgoth Tukaram has done four high peaks out of the seven he has set his mind on

8 March 2020 2:44 AM

Eternally exposed to the elements yet ever enduring, mountains teach us what equanimity in the face of adverse conditions is all about.

Mountain person? Be careful with your heart

The research involved collecting data on how the heart and pulmonary blood vessels adapt to life with less oxygen.

29 May 2018 4:41 AM

Xias dream of standing at the top of the world was nearly thwarted by the Nepal government, which last year banned double amputee and blind climbers from summiting its mountains. (Photo: AFP)

Chinese double amputee finally summits Everest, decades after first...

Xia Boyu, 69, summited Everest early Monday on his fifth attempt to reach the top of the 8,848-metre mountain.

14 May 2018 11:20 AM

Mt. Everest, in middle, altitude 8,848 meters (29,028 feet), is seen on the way to base camp. (Photo: AP)

8 Sherpas summit Mt Everest in a first for the season

Expedition Operator Association Nepal has assigned HGN to fix the ropes on Mt Everest this season, it said.

14 May 2018 5:17 AM

Members of a Chinese surveying team head for the summit of Mount Everest, also known locally as Mt. Qomolangma. China and Nepal have jointly announced on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, a new height for Mount Everest, ending a discrepancy between the two nations. (AP)

Nepal bans three Indian climbers for six years for faking Mt Everest...

The climbers had received the certificates of climbing the 8,848.86m mountain by submitting false details to the...

11 Feb 2021 12:48 PM

Kanchhi Maya Tamang. (Photo: Facebook)

Nepali woman scales Mt Everest with anti-human trafficking message

It was the first time that someone climbed Mt Everest for women's empowerment and gender equality, according to UN Women...

20 May 2017 4:22 PM