Chinese surveyors scale Mt Everest to measure height of the mountain KATHMANDU: A day after the rope-fixing team of Chinese climbers opened a climbing route to the top of the world, two surveyors along with eight support staff today stood atop the Mt Everest from the northern side. According to an official at the... Women 27 May, 2020
Chinese climbers scale Mt Everest KATHMANDU: A team of rope fixing Chinese climbers today scaled the world’s highest peak opening a climbing route to the top of Mt Everest from the northern side. The team reached the top of the world at around 2:25 pm by fixing ropes above... Travel 26 May, 2020
Govt not to issue expedition permits, on-arrival visas to be suspended KATHMANDU: The Government of Nepal will no longer issue climbing permits for spring expeditions on different mountains including Mt Everest, for now. A high-level committee meeting chaired by deputy prime minister Ishwor Pokharel took a decision to... Travel 13 Mar, 2020
China shuts down Everest ahead of spring season Kathmandu, March 12 China has cancelled permits for Mount Everest because of the coronavirus, expedition organisers said today, ahead of the spring climbing season on the world’s highest peak. Last year’s traffic-clogged spring window saw a... 13 Mar, 2020
Icefall doctors leave for base camp to open Everest route KATHMANDU: With the start of main climbing season, an eight-member team of icefall doctors today left for the Mt Everest base camp from Namche Bazaar to fix a climbing route up to Camp II in the world’s highest peak. The team led by Ang Sarki... Travel 10 Mar, 2020
Sanu Sherpa becomes third Nepali to complete 14 peaks as Sergi Mingote scales 7 mountains in 444 days KATHMANDU: A Sherpa climber from Sankhuwasabha district scaled Mt Dhaulagiri becoming the third Nepali mountaineer to complete all 14 mountains above 8,000 m after a two-member team of rope-fixing Sherpa climbers opened a route to the summit point this... Travel 03 Oct, 2019
First Israeli woman, French survivor of Nanga Parbat among 100 climbers who scale Mt Manaslu KATHMANDU: At least 100 climbers including an Israeli woman have successfully stood atop the world’s eighth highest mountain in western Nepal after a team of rope-fixing climbers opened a climbing route to the summit point of Mt Manaslu on Tuesday,... Travel 26 Sep, 2019
Mt Manaslu summit route opens as rope-fixing team scales mountain KATHMANDU: With over 260 expedition members along with their support staff preparing to scale the world’s eighth highest peak, at least four Sherpa climbers of the rope-fixing team along with a Pakistani climber successfully stood atop Mt Manaslu... Travel 24 Sep, 2019
Nirmal �Nims� Purja scales Nanga Parbat to complete his seventh 8000er KATHMANDU: Nirmal ‘Nims’ Purja, who is on his mission to complete all 14 peaks above 8,000m in just seven months, today announced that he has successfully climbed the world’s ninth highest mountain in the westernmost part of the Himalayan... Travel 07 Jul, 2019
Himalayan ecology at risk: Global warming heightens it While the effects of global warming on the Himalayan region are the central issue when discussing dangers to mountain ecology, there are other issues that threaten life in the mountains, and these concern environment degradation by man There is no... 10 Jun, 2019
VIDEO: Traffic jam on the top of the world KATHMANDU: The world’s highest mountain witnessed a traffic jam near the balcony area after more than 200 climbers attempted to reach the summit point of Mt Everest in a single day on May 22 this season. According to Gyanendra Shrestha, a liaison... Travel 26 May, 2019
Sherpa widows scale Mt Everest to inspire single women KATHMANDU: The widows of two Sherpa climbers, who died on Mt Everest, today successfully stood atop the roof of the world, the expedition organiser said. “Furdiki Sherpa and Nima Doma Sherpa reached the summit point of Mt Everest at around... Travel 23 May, 2019
