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

Nepal bans solo climbs on Everest and all 8,000m peaks, introducing stricter rules, higher fees, and eco-measures. Here’s ...

Foreign climbers who want to try reaching the top of the 29,032-foot-tall peak will face higher permit fees in Nepal starting ...

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As an elementary school student, he learned about Mount Everest, and it had been his goal ... of experience climbing mountains all over the country and in different parts of the world.

In 2010, at the age of 22 years and seven months, Norris became the youngest British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest ...

Nepal has increased the cost of an Everest climbing permit by a third, arguing it will help tackle pollution and boost safety ...

Nepal bans solo climbs on Mount Everest and all 8,000m peaks, enforcing stricter rules, higher fees, and eco-measures. Here’s ...

Ngima Nuru Sherpa is small in stature, but he stands tall in the annals of Mount Everest. The 5-foot-7, 150-pound native of Nepal’s Khumbu region has reached the summit of the world’s tallest ...

Nepali climber Prakash Raj Pandey has successfully scaled Mount Aconcagua, the highest peak in South America, located in Argentina, as part of his "Seven Summits" challenge.

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