Sherpa

'Can feel the suffering': Sherpa guide uses savings to help colleagues during pandemic

About 1,71,000 visitors went trekking in 2019 spending days hiking, eating in cafés, staying in inns and buying gear and equipment. In 2020 and again this year there were hardly any.

Nepalese Sherpa guide Kami Rita scales Mt Everest for the 25th time, breaking his own previous record

Nepal has issued climbing permits this year to 408 foreign climbers despite a surging COVID-19 outbreak.

Global warming affects Mt Everest, exposes 10 tonnes of garbage and human remains

Many people who climb the mountain pay very little attention to the ugly footprint they leave behind.

In France, NGO lodges corruption complaint over Rafale deal, questions choice of Reliance Defence as Dassault's offset partner

A France-based anti-corruption NGO that examines illicit financial deals has urged the French authorities to investigate the Rafale fighter jet deal with India.

Four climbers found dead on Mount Everest; 2017 death toll increases to 10

The bodies of four climbers were found inside a tent on Everest, an expedition organiser said Wednesday, taking the death toll on the world's highest peak this spring season to 10.

Nepali woman Kanchhi Maya Tamang scales Everest with anti-trafficking message

Napali woman, Kanchhi Maya Tamang, conquers Mt Everest with a message against Human Trafficking with a banner that read 'we are people , not property'

Everest hero highlights flood threat in Himalayas

In Nepal alone, at least 20 of the more than 2,300 glacial lakes are in danger of bursting banks made mostly of rock and scree held together by little more than gravity.