Nepal earthquake that killed thousands changed the lives of many in the Himalayan nation. But it began a friendship for two ...

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 ...

Ang Dawa Sherpa nearly perished on his first Everest climb because he wasn’t prepared; then he went to school in Nepal for a mountain guide degree. After moving to the US, he wasn’t surprised to find ...

Following decades of speculation, skepticism and lack of consensus, Nepal’s government has announced the country’s first-ever ...

WWF works to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and wildlife, collaborating with partners from local to ...

A team of researchers is embarking on a challenging expedition to Mount Everest to study why the ice on Khumbu Glacier is nearing its melting point. The team, led by Professor Duncan Quincey of the ...

The Sagarmatha region has witnessed the footfall of some 700 tourists in a single day. The office of the Sagarmatha National Park at Namche informed that it recorded the tourists in the Khumbu region ...

Nepal's first nationwide survey of the threatened snow leopard estimated nearly 400 of the elusive big cats in the Himalayan ...

Partner Trent Thorne worked on summiting Mount Everest and Lhotse mountain in China and Nepal, and senior associate Maggie Chang attended a week-long silent meditation retreat. Other staff have ...

The Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) has announced the successful completion of route fixing through the Khumbu Icefall, marking the official opening of the 2025 Everest climbing season.

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from ‘The Matrix,’ scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date WASHINGTON — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix ...

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.