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Nepal is set to increase the cost of climbing Mount Everest, marking the first price hike for the world’s highest peak in ...

Twenty-four hours after winter officially began, Jost Kobusch moved from the Everest Pyramid weather station onto the Khumbu Glacier to begin his solo Everest expedition. The German is currently ...

Further on, at a flat area known as the Football Field, climbers often paused for a rest, and it was common to hear ice groaning as the Khumbu Glacier shuddered forward at the rate of a few feet a ...

The camp, used by up to 1,500 people in the spring climbing season, is situated on the rapidly thinning Khumbu glacier. A new site is to be found at a lower altitude, where there is no year-round ...

At the time of writing, Kobusch appears to be safely back in his Advanced Base Camp on the Khumbu Glacier. Kobusch's tracker shows him approaching his ABC this afternoon, after climbing to the Lho ...

An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 struck 93 km northeast of Lobuche, Nepal, at 6.35 am IST on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported. Tremors were also felt across Bihar and several parts of ...

Sano Babu Sunuwar (back) and Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa (front) launch a tandem paraglider from the summit of Mount Everest, only the third group to do so. For the men, this was the highlight of the entire ...

Lobuche, located near the Khumbu Glacier in Nepal, lies approximately 150 kilometres east of Kathmandu and is close to the Everest Base Camp. China's earthquake monitoring agency recorded the ...