The price of a permit to climb the world’s highest peak will rise 36 percent later this year. Guides believe that climbers ...

Nepali airlines have resumed rescue helicopter flights to the Everest region, an aviation industry official announced Tuesday ...

Rising Prices, New Rules on Mount Everest The allure of climbing Mount Everest, since the first ascent in 1953, continues to escalate, resulting in overcrowding ...

Climbing techniques have evolved over centuries, often creating controversy and debate. The use of acclimatization methods to expedite expeditions lies at the c ...

Geologically, the Tibetan Plateau ranks among the most seismically active areas worldwide, serving as a convergence zone for the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates ...

Yellapura: A devastating accident occurred early Wednesday morning in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, leaving at ...

Tenzin Ngodrub, a deputy to the Xizang Autonomous Regional People's Congress, has called for increased support for disabled ...

[Photo/Xinhua] Victims of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Dingri county in Shigatse ... the region that is home to Mount Qomolangma — known as Mount Everest around the world — has left ...

In Nepal, an official told Reuters the quake destroyed a school building in a village near Mount Everest, which straddles the Nepali ... An initial survey showed 3,609 homes had been destroyed in the ...

The earthquake, recorded at magnitude 7.1 by the US Geological Survey (and 6.8 by China's earthquake center), struck approximately 75 kilometers (50 miles) from Mount Everest and the border with ...

about 80 km north of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. Tremors also shook buildings in neighbouring Nepal, Bhutan and India. An initial survey showed 3609 homes had been destroyed in the ...