Climbing Season Underway in the Himalayas Expeditions to the Himalayas have begun as spring welcomes more accommodating weather to climb the world’s highest pea ...

Austrian guide Lukas Furtenbach will lead a one-week trip to the top of Everest and back this year. Prior to the ascent, he ...

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A group of 20 travellers, led by mountaineer Ryan Mex, became the largest recorded group from Malta to successfully reach ...

A Scots Childline counsellor has raised hundreds for children in need by climbing to Everest Base Camp. Pauline McGowan took ...

The ban against unsupported climbers on Mount Everest and other 8,000m peaks will not commence until after the bulk of the ...

The Everest Base Camp trekking is a bucket-list adventure for many trekkers worldwide. While the trail itself offers ...

A Vietnamese traveler embarked on a journey to Mount Kailash to complete the Kora, a ritual of circling its base, overcoming challenges to experience the essence of Tibet's holiest site. Located over ...

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KATHMANDU: With the start of main climbing season, an eight-member team of icefall doctors today left for the Mt Everest base camp from Namche Bazaar to fix a climbing route up to Camp II in the ...