Three Nepali adventurers will first summit Everest, then kayak down the Dudh Koshi and Ganges Rivers to the Bay of Bengal -- ...

A French-Nepali team is building a new route up Mount Everest that avoids the Khumbu Icefall. Due to the popularity of Mount Everest, as well as increased fragility of the icefall due to climate ...

Kanchha Sherpa during an interview at his residence in Kathmandu, Nepal, in March 2024 [File: Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo] Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the mountaineering team that ...

(ROBIC UPADHAYAY/AFP/AFP) Kanchha Sherpa was the last surviving member of the 1953 expedition that saw Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa become the first to summit the world's highest mountain.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) - A retired attorney from Chicago who became the oldest American to scale Mount Everest, and a Hong Kong teacher who is now the fastest female climber of the world's highest peak ...

A groundbreaking 1,830-mile expedition combining mountaineering and river kayaking aims to highlight the critical link between Himalayan glaciers and downstream freshwater ecosystems while promoting ...

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