One in five British adults don’t know which countries make up the UK and more than 50 percent think that Everest, which is in the Himalayas, is UK’s tallest mountain, a new study has revealed.

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About 2,000 foreign hikers have been trapped in bad weather on the slopes of a mountain near Mount Everest in a remote corner of Nepal for the past four days, officials said on Friday.

They have been

A 59-year-old Japanese climber, on an expedition to the Mount Everest, died just a few metres from the world's highest mountain peak, official said on Friday.

A 51-year-old Nepalese climber scaled Mount Everest for the 21st time on Wednesday, extending his own record for the number of successful ascents of the world's highest mountain, a spokesman said.

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An 82-year-old former Nepalese foreign minister has died on the slopes of Mount Everest while attempting to become the oldest person to climb the world's highest mountain, an official said on Tuesday.

All 22 passengers and crew on board a small passenger plane that crashed in a mountainous area in eastern Nepal were killed, police said on Thursday, after a rescue team reached the site.

London: A Nepalese boy aged nine is on the way to becoming the youngest person to climb the world's highest mountain, Everest.

Tseten Sherpa, who scaled a 6,000-metre peak last week, could beat the

The greatest mystery in mountain climbing involving the death of two British mountaineers who might have climbed Mount Everest in 1924, nearly 30 years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached