Nepal, the landlocked Himalayan country settled between China and India, is regularly hailed as the extreme goal for t ...

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There’s a draft suggestion about dramatically changing who can climb Mount Everest in the future. Picture: iStock. In 2019, a famous image circulated of an astonishing photograph taken at the ...

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Overcrowding has been blamed for the high number of deaths on the mountain. At least 12 climbers died, and another five went missing on Everest’s slopes in 2023 when Nepal issued 478 permits.

Nepal is set to pass a law to grant permits to climb Mount Everest only to those who have previously scaled at least one 7,000-metre peak within the country, marking a major shift for the tourism ...

Overcrowding has been blamed for the high number of deaths on the mountain. At least 12 climbers died, and another five went missing on Everest's slopes in 2023 when Nepal issued 478 permits.

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The 13-mile-long San Jacinto Tunnel was bored through the mountain in the 1930s by a crew ... of the passage to give The Times and others a rare look inside. “It's an engineering marvel ...

Recently, following the amendment to the mountaineering regulations, Nepal sharply increased Everest climbing permit fees and made it mandatory for every two climbers to hire a guide to climb any ...