Mera Peak is known as the world's highest trekking peak – but is that moniker at odds with the facts on the ground? Captain ...

From sacred lakes to former kingdoms, these trails deliver all the Himalayan drama without the Everest circus.

Beneath Nepal’s towering peaks, I walked a path etched into the spine of the Earth—20 days tracing the untamed wild of the ...

Discover We Ramblers’ 2025 Annapurna & Manaslu treks—authentic Himalayan adventures with expert guides, cultural immersion & ...

Retreating glaciers — rivers of ice shrinking back as the world warms — are the most tangible and direct evidence of climate ...

Last month, as the 2025 climbing season began on Mount Everest, Nepal’s upper house of Parliament introduced a tourism bill that includes a suite of new rules that would significantly raise the ...

Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli on Friday underscored the need for honest dialogue, sharing of mutual knowledge, and taking collective action to prevent the effects of climate change ...

Ever since New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepal’s Sherpa Tenzing Norgay summited the 8,849 metres (29,032 feet) high Mt Everest, popular as Sagarmatha in Nepali, on May 29, 1953, thousands of ...

Nepal, home to eight of the world's 14 highest mountains, has faced criticism for allowing too many inexperienced climbers on Everest. In 2023, the country issued 478 permits.

There are over 400 mountain peaks in Nepal which are open to expeditions — of them, 74 are higher than 7,000 meters, according to tourism department data. However, not many of those peaks are ...

Nepal could soon make climbing Mount Everest even harder The Himalayan country is planning to introduce a new law that will only permit climbers who have already scaled one of Nepal's 7,000m peaks ...