Hari Budha Magar, the first above the knee double amputee to scale Mount Everest, said on Sunday that his ascent would raise awareness about disability. Magar, 43, climbed the 8,848-metre (29,032-foot) Everest on artificial legs on Friday and is now taking rest at the base camp, said Pravat Adhikari of the Himalayan Ski Trek company that provided logistics for him.

Ex-British double amputee Gurkha hopes Everest climb will change disability perceptions

An ex-soldier creates history by climbing Mount Everest. This soldier is the first double above-the-knee amputee to climb Mount Everest. His name is Hari Budha Magar and this is his story of exemplary determination. Molly Gambhir reports.

Gravitas: Double amputee ex-soldier scripts history

An expedition organiser said on Sunday (May 21) that an Australian climber has died on Everest. This is the tenth fatality on the world's highest peak during this climbing season.

Australian climber who spent years learning to walk again dies on Everest

In Nepal, a double amputee man named Hari Budha Magar created history by ascending Mount Everest. Hari Budha Magar is the first double amputee above the knee to have accomplished such a feat.

Hari Budha Magar becomes the first double above knee amputee to climb Mount Everest

British climber Kenton Cool, who last week completed his 17th ascent of the world’s highest peak, on Saturday said that Mount Everest is losing snow and has turned more "dry and rocky" in the past year.

Mount Everest has turned 'dry, more rocky', says Britain’s record-holding climber

An Indian-origin Singaporean man went missing after reaching the Mount Everest summit last month and the family is now requesting urgent help, as per reports. Shrinivas Sainis Dattatraya travelled to Nepal last month from Singapore to climb Mount Everest, the family said in a petition on the website change.

Indian-origin man missing after reaching Mount Everest summit, family asks for help

Nepali climber Kami Rita Sherpa reached the top of Mount Everest for the 27th time on Wednesday, reclaiming the record for the most summits of the world's highest mountain.

Nepali mountaineer climbs Everest for record 27th time

A 69-year-old American died while trekking Nepal’s Himalayan mountains, making it the fourth fatality on the world's highest peak this climbing season. Jonathan Sugarman died during his acclimatisation rotation at around 6,400m on Monday, Mohan Kafle, manager of the expedition organiser Beyul Adventure, told the Himalayan Times newspaper.

US climber dies while trekking Mount Everest, making it season’s fourth fatality

Three Nepali sherpa guides went missing after an avalanche swept and buried them in a crevasse on Wednesday (April 12), as per a Tourism Department official. The avalanche hit the most popular Southeast Ridge route to the summit of the world’s tallest mountain.

Avalanche buries three sherpa climbers on Mount Everest, search underway

3 Nepali Sherpas are missing. They were on their way to the world's highest peak, the Mount Everest. The rescue operation to find these climbers, who fell into the abyss is still on.

3 Nepali Sherpas go missing on Mount Everest

Changing the names of places may seem arbitrary at first, but they carry significant social and cultural signals. The rebranding exercise is carried out to establish and destabilise identity and is aimed at playing an important role in the construction of lives, selves, and placement in society.

China’s cultural genocide: How regime is trying to relabel Tibet as ‘Xizang’

In Nepal, thousands of visitors have flocked the Mount Everest and today it is so overcrowded and full of trash that it has been called as world's highest garbage dump. Climbers on K2 and Everest are leaving behind mountains of trash.

WION Climate Tracker | Climbers on K2 and Mt Everest leave behind mountains of rubbish

A Peruvian climber called Flor Cuenca has shared images of the world’s second highest mountain, K2 strewn with debris left by climbers. From plastic bottles to discarded tents, the notoriously challenging 8,611-metre (28,251-feet) "savage mountain" of Pakistan can be seen littered and in a deplorable state in the images.

Social media images show world’s second highest mountain strewn with debris left by climbers

An enormous comet that is twice the size of Mount Everest has entered the inner part of our solar system and is about to pass through Earth in July. Comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS), called K2 for short, was first spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope on the outer reaches of the solar system in 2017.

Giant comet twice the size of Mt. Everest heading towards Earth. Here's how you can watch it

Nepal has decided to move the Everest base camp due to global warming and human activity. The move will be completed by 2024. Khumbu glacier is rapidly thinning out.

Nepal to relocate Everest base camp: Khumbu glacier rapidly thinning out

Global warming is slowly but steadily impacting every part of our lives from extreme heat waves to unseasonal storms and now it's forcing Nepal to move the base camp of mount Everest.

Nepal to move Everest base camp as Khumbu glacier rapidly thinning out

Nepali climber Lhakpa Sherpa has broken her own record by climbing Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain above sea level, for the 10th time. The 48-year-old woman scaled the 8,848.

Nepali climber Lhakpa Sherpa breaks her own record by scaling Mount Everest tenth time

Death of Russian climber Pavel Kostrikin at Camp I of Mount Everest marked the first reported death of a foreigner in current climbing season on the world highest peak.

Russian climber dies on Mount Everest camp, says official

Images and videos of Mount Everest, Earth's highest mountain above sea level, keep mesmerising people across the world. But the latest photo shared by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows a completely "different perspective".

See this magnificent photo of Mount Everest from a completely 'different perspective'

Ukraine has voiced its disapproval after Nepal issued climbing permit for Mt. Everest to nine Russians. The embattled country wants the Himalayan country to ban the Russian mountaineers in the wake of invasion of Ukraine.

Russia-Ukraine war: Kyiv objects to Nepal issuing climbing permits to Russians, wants them to be banned

Nepal's icefall doctors are preparing for the first Everest campaign of the season. Join them as they fix ropes and anchors along the treacherous journey to the top. Mariam Wardak gets you a report.

South Asia Diary: First Everest mission of the season

Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain, may lose its highest glacier by the middle of this century as the 2,000-year-old ice cap thinning at an alarming rate.

Mt. Everest's 2,000-year-old glacier will disappear by mid-century, warn scientists

As per a latest study, the ice on Mount Everest has been thinning at an alarming rate. The Everest region has been losing ice significantly since the late 1990s, 80 times faster than it took to form in 2000 years.

Mount Everest's highest glacier is melting at an alarming rate, says study

According to a new study, the highest glacier on Mount Everest has been melting at a rapid pace, courtesy climate change. In last 25 years, the South Col Glacier has already lost over 180ft (54m) thickness.

Climate change effect: Highest glacier on Mount Everest melting at a rapid pace, says study

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