Prayer flags frame a rescue helicopter as it ferries the injured from Everest Base Camp on April 26, 2015, a day after an avalanche triggered by an earthquake devastated the camp.

Cho Oyu is the sixth-highest mountain in the world. We examine the routes on the difficult, rarely climbed Nepalese side of ...

Even at the best of times, Dhaulagiri can be avalanche-prone. But now, after a huge dump of snow, climbers will need to ...

Bhadra Sharma is a journalist covering South Asia focusing on climbing, mountains, climate change, geopolitics and social affairs.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) -- A Santa Monica documentary filmmaker is among those killed on Mount Everest when a massive 7.8 earthquake in Nepal triggered an avalanche. Tom Taplin traveled to Everest ...

Towering 26,545 feet above sea level, Annapurna I in Nepal holds the deadliest record in mountaineering — with fatality rates ...

"I was so lucky to get out," a hiker tells the BBC after being caught in two days of unusually heavy snow in the Himalayas.

A new study on a 2024 glacial lake outburst flood in the Everest region has warned that the Himalayas are warming at an ...