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Nepal’s UNESCO-listed Sagarmatha National Park, which includes the Everest region, has banned leisure helicopter rides in its vicinities. This ban, announced on December 11, has earned bouquets and ...

Mount Everest is drowning in a slow, multi-colored drip of human debris. At over 8,000 meters (26,200 feet), where the air is ...

Mountaineers will have to contend with much more unpredictable conditions. Climbing Mount Everest is one of the most difficult feats known to humankind, but the treacherous expedition is getting even ...

Nirmal Purja has made headlines again, this time not for a mountaineering achievement but for allegedly breaking the rules. “Most of the climbers from an 11-member team of Lingtren Peak expedition of ...

Under the scheme, climbers paid a $4,000 deposit that was returned if they brought 8kg of waste down the mountain.

Everest Himalayan Cuisine in Bellmore, Long Island's first Nepali restaurant, offers peak hospitality. Credit: Daniel Brennan The hearty dumpling, known as momo, comes in three variations -- vegetable ...

Scheme introduced over a decade ago requires climbers to pay a deposit of about £3,000 each that they can reclaim if they return from expedition with at least 8kg of waste ...

An experienced Kenyan mountaineer died Wednesday and rescuers are still searching for the Nepali sherpa who was with him, after the team attempted to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, ...

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Nepal is set to discontinue its long-standing waste deposit scheme for Mount Everest climbers, which required a $4,000 (£2,960) deposit reclaimable upon returning with 8kg of waste at the end of their ...