Mount Everest is 29,032 feet tall, and every year, hundreds attempt to climb it. Its fatality rate is 1%. Here are five ...

Kathmandu: A rescue helicopter sent to pick up trekkers has crash-landed near Lobuche Mountain in Nepal's Mount Everest region, according to a senior police official.

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A private helicopter on its way to Lobuche near the Everest Base Camp to rescue stranded trekkers crashed on Wednesday (29 October), Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal spokesperson Gyanendra Bhul said.

Kathmandu: Days of ferocious snowstorms and an avalanche in Nepal’s treacherous Himalayan peaks have killed nine people, including five Italian climbers, officials said Tuesday. The deaths occurred in ...

Pippa Middleton's husband tragically lost his older brother in a climbing accident from which the family is still reeling ...

Home to eight of the world’s ten highest peaks, including Mount Everest, Nepal attracts hundreds of climbers and trekkers every year. But avalanches remain one of the deadliest hazards on its slopes.

Five Nepali men and three French women were also receiving treatment after they were injured by the avalanche, officials said ...

The avalanche struck northeastern Nepal's Yalung Ri peak. It swept through the base camp of the 5,630-metre-tall peak.

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Three women were rescued this week after a hike in the Himalayas left them stranded for days. Two British nationals, Catherine Jane Wilson, 53, of Reigate, and Emily Jane Coates, 44, of London, along ...

THE family of a Carlisle man who are battling to prove his death in hospital was not from “natural causes” are now working with a ...