Nepal has officially banned solo expeditions to all mountains above 8,000 meters, including Mount Everest, by amending its ...

Nepal has implemented new regulations requiring one mountain guide for every two climbers on peaks above 8,000 meters, ...

A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake centered about 50 miles from Mount Everest left at least 126 dead in Tibet on Tuesday, reports say. Another 188 people have been injured on the Chinese side of ...

Wang Lama Humla via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Every year, hundreds of mountaineers try to reach the top of Mount Everest, the 29,032-foot-tall peak on the border of Nepal and Tibet.

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade ...

Jost Kousch of Germany continues to immerse himself in the winter climbing season on Mt. Everest, which began with the Solstice on December 21st. Climbing solo, he recently achieved great success ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Starting in late 2025, the permit fee for climbing Mount Everest will increase by more than 36%, according to a private expedition group based in the Himalayas. Under the ...