The Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) has announced a new initiative to provide mountain guides with insurance coverage ...

If you’re inspired by the thought of summiting Everest and are looking for an exciting personal challenge, then get involved in Everesting – a craze that’s grown hugely in popularity over the past 10 ...

The commercialised operations are costing the mountain community precious livelihood, eroding their cultural way of life and ...

The highest mountains in the world”, as the enthusiastic in-flight brochure called them, quite correctly. It was for my ...

PM Oli had informed UN Secretary-General Guterres about Nepal’s plan to convene the Sagarmatha Sambad to champion the agenda of the mountain ecosystem, and invited him to address the dialogue platform ...

Trekkers and their guides at a stop on the Sagarmatha trail. Image by Shashwat Pant. Also left out of this aviation boom are local Sherpa women, who play a critical role in managing the mountain ...

Since then, the mountain has attracted thousands of visitors ... Not only local authorities, but the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC), a local NGO, is also making tremendous efforts ...