Icefall route fixed on Mt Everest, 2025 climbing season opens The Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) has announced the successful completion of route fixing through the Khumbu Icefall, marking the official opening of the 2025 Everest climbing season. Nepal 10 Apr, 2025
Lakpa breaks his own record, route to Makalu summit opens Renowned climber Lakpa Sherpa has successfully summited Mt Makalu (8,485 meters) for the eighth time. Nepal 10 Apr, 2025
Annapurna records season's first summit on 8000ers Climbers from the Seven Summit Treks and Imagine Nepal team have successfully reached the summit of Annapurna I (8,091 metres) marking the first 8000-meter summit of the Spring 2025 climbing season this morning. Nepal 06 Apr, 2025
Spring mountaineering season begins, permits issued for climbers The Department of Tourism has started issuing permits for the spring mountaineering season. Nepal 26 Mar, 2025
Drones to clean Everest and minimise casualties With the 2025 climbing season set to start soon, preparations are in full swing to smoothly manage expeditions on various mountains, including Mt. Everest, the world's highest peak. Environment 20 Mar, 2025
8K team sets to fix summit routes on Everest, Lhotse this spring With the start of the spring climbing season, preparations are in full swing to smoothly manage expeditions on various mountains, including Mt. Everest, the world’s highest peak. Nepal 18 Mar, 2025
Icefall doctors leave for base camp to fix Everest climbing route 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. Nepal 09 Mar, 2025
SPCC team meets Nepal's envoy, takes part in cleaning, training events in South Korea High-level officials and icefall doctors of the Sagarmatha pollution Control Committee, who are currently in South Korea for an official visit, have taken part in different activities there. Nepal 09 Feb, 2025
SPCC collects 85 tons of waste from EBC in spring 2024 The Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) collected a total of 77,191 kgs (roughly 85 tons) of waste from Everest Base Camp (EBC) during the Spring 2024 climbing season. Nepal 30 Jun, 2024
Minister Tamang honours rope-fixing climbers, warns stern action for circulating disinformation about Everest climbing The rope-fixing climbers responsible for opening and fixing the climbing route from the Base Camp to the summit point of Mt Everest this year have been honored amidst a function in Kathmandu this afternoon. Nepal 28 Jun, 2024
SPCC vice chair, CEO scale Everest A team of climbers from the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee today scaled the world’s highest peak, said base camp officials. Nepal 22 May, 2024
Rope fixing climbers, icefall doctors honored for route fixing on Mt. Everest The icefall doctors and rope fixing climbers responsible for opening and fixing the climbing route from the Base Camp to the summit point of Mt Everest this year has been honored by the Department of Tourism at the Everest Base Camp today. Nepal 12 May, 2024
