Octogenarian Min Bahadur Sherchan, who had scaled the Mt Everest at the age of 77, has announced to climb the world’s highest peak once again. “I will scale the Mt Everest by 2012 with the message that world’s destructing weapons should be destroyed,” Sherchan said at a programme organized by Senior Citizen Foundation in the [...]

Chandra Bahadur Dangi, a Nepali man who was named the shortest man alive earlier this year by the Guinness World Record wants to climb the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest. The 54.6cm tall who is in Sydney as part of a promotional tour by Nova FM, has just one wish and that is to climb [...]

The Nepal Heart Foundation is embarking on a global expedition against heart diseases titled Save Heart Expedition (SHE)-2013 from the sea-level of Bangladesh to the top of Mount Everest on March 1-May 15 next year to raise awareness on the killer diseases.  A Nepali team under senior cardiologist Dr Prakash Raj Regmi plans to reach [...]

A 70-year-old climber who became the oldest American to scale Mount Everest three years ago, is heading to the mountain again at the weekend hoping to climb the world’s tallest peak that straddles the Nepal-Tibet border from both sides. Bill Burke, a native of Costa Mesa, California, said he would first try and climb the [...]

Hi, this is Max Kausch writing a dispatch for the Ama Dablam Autumn Expedition 2011.We are stuck in Namche Bazar. There are no flights leaving from Lukla to Kathmandu and the other way around. The weather seems really bad these days and just like us, there are several hundred trekkers in the same situation. The [...]

After attending two Puja’s in Pangboche, home of Lama Geshi, the go to guy when asking a blessing of safety when traversing the high peaks of the Himalaya, we set out and up. The Trek to base-camp is long in the sense that you must take your time to let your body become acclimatized to the lesser amounts of [...]

At least 14 people, including three foreigners, are confirmed dead in the flood in Seti River in Pokhara and adjoining villages in Kaski, Nepal Army’s Spokesperson Ramindra Chhetri told a local television channel on Saturday afternoon. The identity of the deceased is yet to be identified. In the flood in Seti River that was apparently [...]

A pall of gloom descended over Bhosari as the news of city-based mountaineer Ramesh Gulave’s (33) death, while realising his dream to climb the Mount Everest, spread on Saturday. Gulave, who was known in the mountaineering circle as the most technically-sound climber, had to be flown back to Pune after developing some medical problems at [...]

A major avalanche has swept the western slopes of Mount Everest injuring at least one Sherpa guide and panicked hundreds of climbers trying to reach the world’s highest peak. The avalanche came as the hundreds of mountaineers were preparing to climb Everest’s slopes after weeks of acclimatizing at base camp. Tilak Pandey of Nepal’s Mountaineering [...]

An ailing mountaineer, Ramesh Gulave, who was rescued by an Indian Army Everest expedition near the Everest base camp a week ago died on Saturday in Pune, Maharashtra, India. The death of Gulave was due to non recovery from coma, a source confirmed Nepal Mountain News through email. Gulave was rescued in a semi-conscious state [...]