Nepal's ruling Maoists said on Thursday they have suspended their leader's son after he was accused of starting an affair with a student activist while they were climbing Mount Everest together.

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The extraordinary image of the crowd on Mount Everest, which is a far cry from the splendid isolation that Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Norgay Tenzing experienced when they became the first to reach the

A near-record number of climbers reached the summit of Everest as the season ended on Saturday without a repeat of last week's deadly accidents, which had raised fears of overcrowding on the world's h

Climbers have reported seeing another body on Mount Everest, raising the death toll to four for one of the worst days ever on the world's highest mountain.

Nepali mountaineering official Gyanendra Sh

A 21-year-old student has become the youngest British woman to reach the summit of the world's highest peak, Mount Everest.

Mollie Hughes, from Bristol, and her team made it to the 8,848-metre summit

Three climbers from Germany, South Korea and Canada have died on their descent from the summit of Mount Everest, tour agents and officials said on Monday, with two other mountaineers also missing.

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A 73-year-old Japanese woman has climbed Mount Everest, smashing her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale the world's highest mountain.

Ang Tshering of the China Tibet Mountaineering

A 23-member team of ITBP was on Friday flagged off here on a mountaineering and ski expedition to Mount Everest from the Chinese side, considered tougher than the more-frequently taken route through N

A seven-member expedition to Mount Everest led by a city resident could well turn out to be the most inexpensive climb to the world’s highest peak in the last few years. The team would also attempt th

A mountaineer from Assam will be trying to scale the highest peak in the world - Mount Everest.

The mountaineer, Pranay Bordoloi, will join a 12-member international team on their mission to climb Mo