Officials in Nepal say an avalanche swept through a camp on Mount Yalung Ri on Monday and killed five foreign climbers and two Nepali guides. an Armed Police Force spokesperson says five other people ...

Two Nepali guides were also killed along with a Canadian and an Italian citizen, Gyan Kumar Mahato, a deputy superintendent ...

Nepal will issue Everest permits only to climbers with experience of scaling at least one of the Himalayan nation’s 7,000-meter (22,965 ft) peaks, according to the draft of a new law aimed at reducing ...

Jewel SAMAD/AFP/AFP Nepal has waived climbing fees for 97 mountains, officials said on Wednesday, hoping to steer people to its lesser-known peaks and boost local economies. Climbers pay for permits ...

Three climbers, including a foreign national, were killed and eight others were missing after an avalanche hit a climbing expedition on a Himalayan peak in Nepal, police said on Monday.

An avalanche struck a mountaineering camp on Mount Yalung Ri in Nepal on Monday, killing seven people ... which occurred at the mountain’s base camp situated around 4,900 meters (16,070 feet) above ...

The climbers, Stefano Farronato and Alessandro Caputo, were attempting to scale the 6,887-metre Panbari mountain in western Nepal as part of a three-member team.

Two mountaineers, one French and one South Korean, have died in Nepal after separate expeditions to the Ama Dablam mountain ...