Kathmandu, 01 May: Though the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has stressed on the need to change the policy and introduce strict rules to monitor illegal activities in the mountains, people in the sector said that it is impossible to change the policy. “It is quite difficult to ...

Kathmandu, May 28: Nepal Tuesday launched a new system of providing identity cards to all summiteers of Mount Everest. The first batch of identity cards were distributed to famous Sherpa mountaineers, without whose help scaling Mt. Everest has become virtually impossible, reported Xinhua. “We want that all Everest summiteers, irrespective ...

 80 years old Japanese climber Miura sets Everest records. An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer on Thursday became the oldest person to climb the Mount Everest, as Nepal’s Min Bahadur Sherchan (81), who held the previous record, prepared to climb the peak Yuichiro Miura reached the summit at 9:05 a.m. Thursday; APF ...

Nisha Adhikari has become the first Nepali actress to scale Mt. Everest! Adhikari successfully climbed the highest peak in the world on May 21, Tuesday after stepping on the summit at 8:00 am as informed by Tourism Ministry officials. The Sungava star and actor Arjun Karki had left for the ...

A British mountaineer´s interview with the BBC on his smartphone from the top of Mount Everest has stirred controversy with the Nepalese government calling the broadcast “illegal”, officials said Monday. British mountaineer Daniel Thomas Hughes gave a live video interview to the BBC on his smartphone from the 8,848-metres (29,029-feet) peak ...