Income from permit fees and other spending by foreign climbers is a key source of revenue and employment for the cash strapped nation

Mountaineer Akke Rahman, a British citizen of Bangladeshi descent, has climbed Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world.

Akke Rahman (39) from Oldham in the UK, will climb Mount Everest tomorrow April (11, 2022), while fasting during Ramadan.

A Japanese climber, who lost nine fingertips to frostbite in a previous expedition, died during an attempt to climb Mount Everest, an official says, the second person to die on the world’s highest mountain during the current climbing season.

​A Nepali Sherpa is hoping to summit Mount Everest for a record-breaking 22nd time next month, during the busy climbing season that each year sees hundreds of climbers reach the top of the world.

Nepal has banned solo climbers from scaling its mountains, including Mount Everest, in a bid to reduce accidents, an official says.

Police in India are investigating claims by two climbers who say they are the country's first couple to scale the world's highest peak Mount Everest.

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.

Wasfia Nazreen, who was recently awarded as the Emerging Explorer accolade by National Geographic gives an exclusive interview about how it all began.

Helicopter firms are carrying out unauthorised sightseeing flights over the upper reaches of Mount Everest, Nepalese officials say.

When the earthquake struck last year and thousands of tons of snow and ice and earth came crashing down the mountain, some feared the climbers might never return to Mount Everest.

The Seven Summits is a dream for many climbers, but only a few have succeeded. Wasfia Nazreen is now proudly belongs to that exclusive group.

“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.

A Japanese climber with only one finger has again abandoned his bid to be the first person to climb Mount Everest since an earthquake hit Nepal in April.

A devastating earthquake that hit Nepal in April moves Mount Everest three centimetres (just over an inch) to the southwest, but does not change its height, according to Chinese research.

Climbing Mount Everest this season is "almost impossible" because the routes have been damaged by avalanches triggered by last month's earthquake, officials in Nepal say.

The Nepal earthquake and its aftershocks have probably triggered many landslides, scientists warn.

Dan Fredinburg, a Google Inc executive based in California, among those killed yesterday in an avalanche on Mount Everest caused by a devastating earthquake in Nepal.

Rescuers dig up bodies in Nepal on Sunday after an earthquake devastates the heavily crowded Kathmandu valley, killing at least 1,900, and triggering a deadly avalanche on Mount Everest.