A TEAM of over 20 business leaders from across the island of Ireland, UK and USA have launched their 26 Mountains 2 Mayo ...

As it is, the Trump administration has placed about 170 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency justice staff on leave around ...

The first-ever all-women’s winter expedition from Bangladesh to Nepal’s Himalayan Langtang region took place in December 2024. We spoke to the country’s female mountaineers to find out the challenges ...

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We were five Americans, our guide Sunil and six Sherpa porters. Our trek was from Lukla, Nepal to Mount Everest base camp.

Nepal has banned solo expeditions on Mount Everest and other peaks over 8000m. Stricter guidelines now require one mountain ...

Nepal has officially banned solo expeditions to all mountains above 8,000 meters, including Mount Everest, by amending its mountaineering regulations, according ...

The duke and duchess were greeted by Ram Chandra Paudel and his wife Sabita Paudel at the Presidential Palace in Kathmandu.

The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain’s theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...

But they have also been used to give mountaineering teams and tourists a shortcut over challenging terrain in the Sagarmatha National Park, home to Mount Everest, the world's highest peak.

The country also requires that all individuals use supplemental oxygen when climbing above 7,000 meters. Far fewer climbers ascend Everest from China compared to Nepal.

According to the Himalayan Database, 18 people died on Mount Everest in spring 2023 ... tourism is one of the Asian country's primary economic drivers. The World Bank estimates that tourism ...