Ganesh Yadav was shot by police during deadly protests that roiled southern Nepal in 2015, but he is ready to return to the streets — a mark of the intense anger still felt as the area prepares to go to the polls. Nepal last month began holding its first local elections in 20 years, a … Read more
Satyarup Siddhanta only discovered he was at the centre of an Everest fraud when he spotted news of a couple whose false claim to have scaled the world’s highest peak has set off a debate about how mountaineering feats are authenticated. The Indian couple had doctored his summit photo, superimposing their own faces to support … Read more
The Hillary Step — a rocky outcrop near the top of Mount Everest — is still intact, Nepali climbers said Wednesday, rejecting a widely reported claim by a British mountaineer that it had collapsed. The condition of the rock face has been the source of intense speculation among the climbing community since six-time Everest summiteer … Read more
An Indian has climbed Mount Everest twice in under a week in what may be a new woman’s record for the fastest double ascent. Anshu Jamsenpa, a 37-year-old mother-of-two, reached the summit on 16 and 21 May, tourism official Gyanendra Shrestha confirmed to BBC Nepali. The current Guinness record for a woman’s double ascent is … Read more
An Indian climber Sunday reached the summit of Mount Everest for the second time in less than a week, her expedition team said, setting a women’s record for a double ascent of the world’s highest mountain in a single season. Anshu Jamsenpa, 37, returned from the 8,848-metre (29,028-feet) peak on May 16, before turning around … Read more
Sherpa climbers who successfully scale mountains including Mount Everest will be officially recognised, the Nepal government said Friday, reversing a controversial decision to stop issuing summit certificates to the guides. The Sherpas who guide foreign mountaineers are the backbone of Nepal’s lucrative high-altitude climbing industry, which nets the impoverished Himalayan country more than $3 million … Read more
Nepal has issued a record number of permits to climbers wanting to summit Mount Everest this spring, an official said Thursday, prompting fears of overcrowding on the world’s highest peak. A record 373 foreign climbers have been cleared to scale Everest from the south side during a narrow window of good weather this month — … Read more
Swiss climber Ueli Steck, one of the most feted mountaineers of his generation and famed for his speed ascents of iconic Alpine routes, has died on Everest, officials said. “Today morning, he had an accident on the Nuptse wall and died. It seems he slipped,” Ang Tsering Sherpa, head of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, told … Read more
The continuous whirl of hair dryers is a novel sound at the Blush Beauty Point parlour in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, which until just five months ago had to close at regular intervals because of power cuts. Scheduled power cuts — known as load-shedding — have been a part of daily life in the impoverished landlocked … Read more