Double Olympic biathlon champion Laura Dahlmeier tragically died at 31 in a mountaineering accident in Pakistan's Karakoram mountains. Caug...

In 1965, India’s top climbers carried a nuclear spying device up Nanda Devi for the CIA to watch China’s atomic tests. Bad weather forced t...

Nepal is set to require Everest climbers to have previously scaled a 7,000-meter peak within the country to reduce overcrowding and improve...

Two American climbers and a Canadian climber are presumed dead after going missing on New Zealand's tallest peak, Aoraki. The experienced m...

The body of American mountaineer, William Stampfl, was recently found in the Peruvian highlands after being missing for over 20 years. It w...

As temperatures go up due to climate change, the snow cover of the world's highest peak Mt. Everest thins, and bodies of deceased climbers ...

Swiss officials have identified the remains of a German climber who went missing in 1986 through DNA testing and forensic analysis. The dis...

Nepal, which has a poor record on air safety, observed a day of mourning on Monday. Fifteen foreigners were on board the plane including fi...

Nelson is the 1st woman to summit two 8000-meter peaks in a single 24-hour push.

Though Nepal's air industry has boomed in recent years, carrying goods and people between hard-to-reach areas as well as foreign trekkers a...

The bodies of eight-member team of the climbers, comprising seven foreigners and one Indian, were first spotted by the IAF's search planes ...

ITBP spokesman Vivek Kumar Pandey said the team is trying to move the bodies to a base camp further down the mountain so that they can be a...

A 10-member ITBP team of climbers dug out the seven bodies, including a woman mountaineer, which were buried under the snow.

The deaths from avalanche at the Everest Base Camp have brought the spotlight back on over-commercialisation. The old debate will now be re...

Over 60 climbers were injured and hundreds of foreign adventurers, hikers and guides at the base camp were feared missing when the avalanch...

It's 50 years since the first Indian-led expedition summited Mount Ever est, and the class of 1965 is set for a reunion.

The royal Botanic Gardens at Kew is home to some of the most extraordinary plants on the planet. Designated a World Heritage Site by Unesco...