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

A total of 402 climbers from 53 countries, including 74 women have been granted permission to scale the Mount Everest, this ...

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

Nepal announces major rule change for anyone who wants to climb Everest - New bill criticised by international expedition ...

Nepal plans to issue Everest permits only to climbers who have scaled a local 7,000-meter peak. The new regulation aims to ...

This spring, 402 climbers from 53 countries, including 74 women, have received permission from Nepal's Department of Tourism ...

An Austrian climber has died while descending Nepal's Ama Dablam after a successful summit, the country's tourism department ...

Krishna Pokharel writes about life, politics, business, environment, religion and culture in India and the Himalayan region for The Wall Street Journal.

On Easter Sunday, an Italian helicopter pilot named Simone Moro received word of a SOS call on 26,545-foot Annapurna in Nepal. Moro told Outside that a Ukrainian climber was suffering from altitude ...

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 ...

Our Everest correspondent recently attended a pre-climb meeting held by guiding company Seven Summit Treks in downtown ...