It’s not quite a highway to heaven, but it’s as high as any traveller will be able to drive when Nepal constructs the first hard-surface road leading to Lukla, the gateway to Mount Everest. The ...

Rumor on the trail that the Lukla airport had shut down started a week ago. We were still making our push to Everest Base Camp (17,701 feet) and Kala Patthar (18,315 feet). The weather was starting to ...

More than 1,200 foreign hikers have been trapped on a mountain in the Himalayas near Mount Everest by bad weather. Thick fog and cloud cover have forced airlines to cancel all flights to and from the ...

Around 150 trekkers realized they couldn't see route as weather deteriorated; one person medivacked to nearby town; group ...

Image: Lukla is a small town in the Khumbu Pasanglhamu rural municipality of the Solukhumbu District. (David Cheskin - PA Images/Getty Images) Inspector Ram Kishore Sha from the district police office ...

If you want to climb Mt. Everest, you may very well find yourself flying into Lukla Airport. This is not what anyone would consider a good thing. The airport is widely considered the most dangerous in ...

The writer became an aid worker for Mount Everest climbers during the devastating disaster. A decade later, he explores how the tragedy shaped Nepal—and his own life. New perk: Easily find new routes ...

The first ascent of Mt Everest in 1953 and the first flights into Lukla Airport a decade later opened up the trekking trail to the world’s highest mountain to the world. The hiking route from Lukla to ...

When her daughter, Arishka, was just 6 years old, Dimple Laddha took her to Everest Base Camp. The camp sits at an elevation of around 17,600 feet, where the oxygen concentration is nearly 50% less ...

In Nepal, 18 people were killed when a small passenger plane crashed in the east of the country. Most of the victims were German tourists. Anjana Pasricha reports for VOA from New Delhi. Airport ...