An expedition is planning to take clients up the world's tallest mountain in record time with xenon gas. But some in the ...

Climbers hoping to scale the world's tallest mountain may need to climb another 7,000m+ peak in Nepal to receive a permit ...

Nepal will issue Everest permits only to climbers with experience of scaling at least one of the Himalayan nation’s ...

Nepal is planning to restrict expeditions to Mt Everest only to those mountaineers who have climbed at least one peak above 7 ...

New safety measures for Mount Everest proposed by Nepal would require climbers to demonstrate previous high-altitude ...

Official data shows that since 1953’s Hillary-Norgay summit, around 9,000 mountaineers have successfully scaled Mt Everest ...

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 ...

A new bill proposes much-needed reforms of rules governing climbing and cleaning up the mountain.

As Nepal moves to reform safety on Mt Everest, some of the peak's most respected guides question whether the new rules will ...