Nepali climber Phunjo Lama on Thursday reached Everest's summit in 14 hours and 31 minutes, smashing the record for the world's fastest ascent of the mountain by a woman

Before him, Musa Ibrahim (2010), M.A. Muhit (2011), Nishat Majumdar (2012), and Wasfia Nazreen (2012) successfully summited Mount Everest. Mohammed Khaled Hossain summited Mount Everest in 2013 but died on his way down

A search was underway for three Nepali climbers who fell into a crevasse while ascending Everest on Wednesday, the first such accident on the world's highest mountain this climbing season.

Every year in the spring, hundreds of aspiring Everest climbers from all over the world arrive in Nepal, hoping to conquer the mountain.

Everest's summit season gets off to a frantic start Monday with at least 30 climbers reaching the peak, including a Chinese double amputee and an Australian who set a new world record.

Two Indian police officers who falsely claimed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest last year have been sacked, authorities said Tuesday.

A British ex-serviceman abandons his Mount Everest climb some 500m from the summit to save a fellow mountaineer.

About 30 climbers suffer frostbite on Mount Everest after two others die, apparently from altitude sickness. Two Indian climbers are also reported missing in the mountain's so-called "death zone" near the summit.

The authorities in Nepal are to extend for free permits for foreigners prevented from climbing Mount Everest by last year's earthquakes.

“Believe it or not Carstensz Pyramid is the hardest and the most arduous mountain of my life, even harder than Everest," Wasfia says after conquering the mountain.

"Everest", an account of a 1996 disaster on the world's most famous mountain, got the 72nd Venice film under way on a high note.