The government today agreed to honour the permits issued to scale Mt Everest this season for up to five years.A high-level joint team led by Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation Bhim Acharya announced at a meeting with the agitating mountaineering support staff and guides at the Everest Base Camp ...

Distraught Nepalese guides and climbers have cancelled expeditions on Mount Everest after at least 13 colleagues died in an avalanche. At the same time anger is mounting over poor payments for sherpas who take huge risks on the world’s highest peak. Sherpas, already grief-stricken over the loss of colleagues, have ...

NEW YORK: The Discovery Network is canceling a daredevil’s planned jump off the summit of Mount Everest in a wing suit next month following the avalanche that killed at least 13 people on Friday. Network spokeswoman Laurie Goldberg said Sunday that the network’s thoughts and prayers go out to the ...

Search operation for three Sherpa guides missing in the Everest avalanche has been called off due to ‘too much risk’ involved. A meeting of expedition operating agencies and guide associations on Saturday night decided not to conduct the search mission, saying it was almost “impossible” to retrieve the three remaining ...

The death toll in the deadliest avalanche on Mt Everest today reached 13 with rescuers recovering one more body of a mountaineering guide from the incident site this afternoon. Officials said the chance of finding three more, who have gone missing in the debris, alive, was almost nil as search ...