When Pasang Nuru Sherpa recalls his childhood in the quiet village of Pangboche, in the foothills of Sagarmatha, the Nepali ...

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Nepal is set to increase the cost of climbing Mount Everest, marking the first price hike for the world’s highest peak in ...

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KATHMANDU, Jan 17: A heart-pounding rescue unfolded in Solukhumbu on Thursday when Michael Heinrich, a 41-year-old German ...

During climbing season mountaineers spend most of their time at base camp acclimatising to the ... Officer of the non-government organisation Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC).

A $8,000 helicopter tour accommodates up to four people up to Lukla. However, only two people can fly from Lukla and land at ...

Sagarmatha National Park authorities have ... Elite climbers mostly use helicopters either to reach Everest’s base camp for an expedition or to return to Kathmandu. Off-season helicopter ...

But they have also been increasingly used to airlift mountaineering teams and tourists over the challenging terrains in the Sagarmatha National Park ... reduce the two-week long trek to Everest base ...