Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a forecast of weaker winds, the recovery team on Makalu will make a new attempt to retrieve the body of Phurba Ongel Sherpa ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is no trace of Abofazl Gozali of Iran, missing on Makalu since Thursday. Fierce winds forced the Sherpa searchers to retreat ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Kanchha Sherpa, last survivor of the historic 1953 Mount Everest expedition, died Thursday at 92 in Kathmandu, ...

Climbing the world’s 14 highest peaks — all located in the Himalayas — has long represented the ultimate objective in alpinism. From K2 to Annapurna, these mountains present some of the toughest ...

Famed Nepalese Sherpa guide Kami Rita has broken his record for the most successful expeditions of the world's highest peak by scaling Mount Everest for the 31st time. Kami Rita Sherpa has also scaled ...

In late July, 2022, Nepali mountaineers Pasdawa Sherpa and his uncle Dawa Ongju Sherpa were breaking trail high on the summit ridge of 26,414-foot Broad Peak in Pakistan. The two were working as ...

Camp 2 below the Lhotse face. Photos: LAKPA SHERPA/8K EXPEDITIONS It is currently summit week on Everest, with strong pre-monsoon storms lashing the world’s highest mountain. Climbers and their Nepali ...

It has been a century since Mallory and Irvine may or may not have reached the summit of Mt Everest. Mountaineering in Nepal has changed a lot since that first British expedition in 1924. Everest gets ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the mountaineering expedition team that first conquered Mount Everest, died early Thursday, according to the Nepal Mountaineering ...