Follow us as we begin our Gokyo Valley trek deep in Nepal’s Mount Everest region, a journey filled with thin air, icy trails, ...

Unfortunately, this is not the only sign of humans as you climb up the tallest mountain. Other Mount Everest visitors have ...

While there's no doubt the world's highest peak offers a captivating view, it's rather spoiled by the mounds of trash and ...

Outside will be stationed in Nepal’s Mount Everest Base Camp for the 2025 spring climbing season. Here is your destination for all the news from the Himalayas. New perk: Easily find new routes and ...

Mount Everest is about 15 to 50 meters taller than it would otherwise be because of uplift caused by a nearby eroding river gorge, and continues to grow because of it. Mount Everest is about 15 to 50 ...

The plan, drafted by the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, will run from 2025 to 2029 and keep Nepal's mountains clean while making climbing safer.

Mount Everest looms large both physically and figuratively in the lives and minds of mountaineers. The first confirmed successful ascent of the peak was achieved by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay ...

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More than 300 people have died climbing Mount Everest — the tallest peak in the world, located in the Himalayas near the China-Nepal border. On May 10, 1996, four different expeditions attempted to ...