There is nothing that women cannot do and a former Hong Kong schoolteacher has proved this while setting a world record. Tsang Yin-hung became the fastest woman to ascend Mount Everest by finishing the climb in merely 25 hours and 50 minutes, an official announced.

'Aim high': Hong Kong teacher sets record for fastest Everest climb

Two climbers from the United States and Switzerland have died on Mount Everest, the first fatalities of this year's season, expedition organisers in Nepal said Thursday.

Two foreign climbers die on Everest

According to reports, the Nepal government has put several restrictions on foreign trekkers and mountaineers in order to minimise the threat of coronavirus in the country.

Nepal issues new coronavirus guidelines for mountaineers

Nepali climbers have retrieved four bodies and collected some 11 tonnes of decades-old garbage from Mount Everest and its approach below the base camp as part of a drive to clean up the world's highest mountain, the government said on Wednesday.

4 bodies, 11 tonne garbage picked in Mount Everest clean-up operation

'Sherchan died of apparent heart attack,' said Ang Tshering Sherpa, chief of the Nepal Mountaineering Association

Nepali climber, 85, dies trying to become oldest Everest climber