Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rakesh Kumar, a 39-year-old climber from India, died on Sunday while descending from the summit of Lhotse, which stands at 8,516m ...

In October, Lise Billon and Maud Vanpoulle led a team of young women climbers to Uttarakhand in the Indian Himalaya. Conditions thwarted them on their main goal, but they forged a new route on a ...

Three American climbers have died after an avalanche slammed into their base camp in the Himalayas, Nepalese media reports. Seven people died in total, including one Canadian, one Italian, and two ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — An avalanche swept through a camp on Mount Yalung Ri in Nepal on Monday and killed five foreign climbers and two Nepali guides, officials said. Armed Police Force spokesperson ...

On Sunday, May 4, American climber Alex Pancoe died on the slopes of Nepal’s 27,838-foot Makalu, the world’s fifth-highest mountain. Pancoe was completing an acclimatization hike in preparation for a ...

Mountaineers at the G1/G2 Base Camp in the Karakoram Range near the Pakistan-China border captured the terrifying moment a massive avalanche thundered down the mountain. The wall of snow rushed toward ...

The true winter climbing season in the Himalayas beings on December 21st , and several teams have plans to attempt climbing some of the highest mountains in the world during this ominous period – the ...

Indian mountaineers on Monday began a dangerous trek toward an isolated Himalayan slope in a bid to find the bodies of eight climbers feared killed by an avalanche. An Indian Mountaineering Federation ...

Rescuers in Nepal airlifted some injured climbers to safety. The avalanche followed heavy snowfall produced by Cyclone Montha. By Binod Ghimire Reporting from Kathmandu, Nepal An avalanche struck a ...

Himlung Himal (7,126m) on the border between Manang and Mustang where an Australian climber Chin-Tark Chan died on 29 October. Photo: ASIATICROADS.COM The autumn mountaineering season is not over yet, ...

The Winter Climbing Season begins Saturday, December 21, with the solstice and the official start of winter. The climbing expedition teams seeking to summit Himalayan peaks this winter season are ...