Climbing Mount Everest is often framed as a test of grit and altitude, but the real shock for many would-be summiters is ...

Nepal plans to raise the cost of a permit to climb Mount Everest by 36%. A permit for the spring season is set to cost $15,000, up from $11,000. A veteran mountaineer says new prices will have little ...

Last month, as the 2025 climbing season began on Mount Everest, Nepal’s upper house of Parliament introduced a tourism bill that includes a suite of new rules that would significantly raise the bar ...

If you have dreams of going to the top of the world, then you need to save even more money as the cost of climbing Mount Everest is going up. For those who want to climb Mount Everest the fee will be ...

Gauchan said that the helicopter’s instrument panel provides a color-coded safety scale of green, yellow, and red. “During ...

But on 20 May 2009, former NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski (USA) became the first person to complete both incredible ...

After nine hours trekking overnight in the snow, Richard Birrer clambered onto the peak of Mount Everest. “To see the sun rise on the summit, with the shadow of Everest against all the other mountains ...

When the iconic American television show went on a 10-day trek to the Mount Everest Base Camp, the team knew they were in for ...

Two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker shares a name with a 19 th century alpinist, the first woman to summit the Matterhorn, in 1871, and the Eiger, in 1864 (feats she accomplished in ...

Nepal and China decided to suspend climbing permits for the spring. China and Nepal are not giving permits to climbers hoping to summit Mount Everest this season. The reports that climbers won't be ...