New bill criticised by international expedition organisers for only allowing certificates from Nepali mountain peaks ...

KATHMANDU — Nepal will issue Everest permits only to climbers with experience of scaling at least one of the Himalayan nation ...

Sophia Bush's world was 'shattered' in 2015 when her Google executive ex and 'best friend' died in an Mount Everest avalanche ...

Krishna Pokharel writes about life, politics, business, environment, religion and culture in India and the Himalayan region ...

Certain places on Earth seem far too extreme to support life, but that assumption is far from true. Rather, life apparently ...

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

Astronomers discovered a planet that orbits its star so closely that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing ...

As Nepal moves to reform safety on Mt Everest, some of the peak's most respected guides question whether the new rules will ...

Earlier today, a huge serac collapsed in Everest's Khumbu Icefall. Luckily, no one was injured, but the shifting ice did ...

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal on April 25, 2015, killing nearly 9,000 people as it destroyed homes and heritage sites ...