Two weeks ago, Katelyn Sims was scaling Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. Sims achieved the double crown by summiting Everest, then hiking down and back up Lhotse, the world's fourth ...

Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Badri Prasad Pandey joined high-level dignitaries today to honour the Sherpa ...

Sports Outdoors On top of the world: Cheney High grad climbs Mount Everest, Lhotse June 6, 2025 Updated Fri., June 6, 2025 at 4:58 p.m.

Climbing Everest, Lhotse, and Nuptse was a lifetime goal, not a seasonal one. The first to climb all three was Ralf Dujmovits of Germany, who summited Everest in 1992, Nuptse in 1996, and Lhotse ...

The climbing season in the Himalayas continues, with high-altitude expeditions taking on K2 and other 8,000-meter peaks in the Karakoram. After a successful spr ...

The Nepal Army has been leading in waste collection on Mt. Everest and other mountains since 2019, and three teams have been mobilized this year to clean the highest peak as well as Mt. Lhotse, Mt ...

You could say Dr. Blake Higgins was destined to climb Mount Everest. Even though his parents — longtime owners of the ...

You could say Dr. Blake Higgins was destined to climb Mount Everest. Even though his parents — longtime owners of the ...

Rising temperatures and intense human activity are destabilising the icy terrain, risking the lives of climbers and sherpas.

In Tibet, climbing Mount Kailash is prohibited by the Chinese government because it revered by the Hindus, Buddhists and ...

From sacred lakes to former kingdoms, these trails deliver all the Himalayan drama without the Everest circus.

Yet the 2025 death totals—three on Mount Everest’s upper reaches, five total— represents a decrease from 2024 when eight people died, and in 2023, when 18 lost their lives.