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Peak season in the Nepal Himalaya

Everest expeditions cope with a narrow weather window as pre-monsoon storms lash the mountains

Vishad Raj Onta

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Khumbu in winter during COP28 shows how much Himalayan ice is gone

Nepal can’t keep up with trash building up on Everest

A ban on littering at source is the only way to clean up the world's highest peaks

“If the ice is gone, we are done”

Climbing Mt Everest at 8,848.86m is on many people’s bucket list. Even just reaching Base Camp in northeastern Nepal, at 5,364m, is...

1921 Rendezvous: Mallory, Pumori and Everest

In July 1921, exploring the northern flanks of Mt Everest, the teacher, essayist and climber George Leigh Mallory came up from Tibet on the...

Trekking in Nepal is open for business

Till two years ago, Pemba Norbu Sherpa was a happy-go-lucky trekking guide from Phakding on the Everest Trail. Things were looking up, he was...

Mt Everest grows by 86cm

The height of Mt Everest has grown by 86cm to now measure 8848.86m, the foreign ministers of Nepal and China revealed at a joint...

Aussie paraglider to jump off Everest

Approaching 62 years old, and after retiring from a police rescue squad in 1996, Ken Hutt needed some adrenaline replacement therapy.He had...

More stranded tourists evacuated from Nepal

Five days after Nepal went into a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, a bulk of the tourists stranded in the Mt Everest region are...

The Climate Smart Great Himalayan Trek

It has been eight years since a group of hikers and a dog walked across Nepal to promote tourism and highlight the climate crisis

Lisa Choegyal