Nepal introduces ID cards for all Everest summiteers

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 16:24

Nepal on Tuesday launched a new system of providing identity cards to all summiteers of Mount Everest.

Mexican twice summits Everest in one climbing season

Last Updated: Monday, May 20, 2013, 12:39

Mexican David Liaño Gonzalez Sunday became the first climber to double summit on Mount Everest, the world`s tallest mountain, in the same season, the climb`s organizers said.

Nepalese women set to conquer highest peaks in 7 continents

Last Updated: Sunday, February 24, 2013, 18:21

Seven young Nepalese women, who have embarked on adventurous mission to conquer highest peaks in world`s 7 continents, will set feet on fourth peak, Mt Kilimanjaro (5,895 m) of South Africa.

Nepalese trekker dies trying to climb Mt Everest

Last Updated: Thursday, April 19, 2012, 22:48

The eldest son of noted Nepalese mountaineer Ang Rita Sherpa died while attempting to scale Mount Everest.

Everest hero highlights flood threat in Himalayas

Last Updated: Friday, March 2, 2012, 21:21

Before Apa became a legendary Sherpa mountaineer, he was a humble Himalayan potato farmer who worked his fields in the Everest foothills until, without warning, raging floodwaters swallowed his farm.

Sherpa, light armoured vehicle, launched

Last Updated: Monday, June 20, 2011, 18:20

The Sherpa has been designed "to aid the security forces in counter-insurgency".

Sherpa guides missing after avalanche in the Himalayas

Last Updated: Sunday, October 24, 2010, 23:57

A veteran Nepalese guide who has climbed the Mt Everest 19 times is missing along with two others, after an avalanche hit their expedition in the Himalayas.

Three Japanese, one Sherpa missing in Mt Dhaulagiri

Last Updated: Thursday, September 30, 2010, 13:18

Three Japanese climbers and a Sherpa guide were swept away by an avalanche at a mountain peak in Nepal and a helicopter has been sent to rescue them, a Tourism Ministry official said.