Tamting
Sherpa, who climbed all 8,000ers as a porter, is
planning to hang up his boots : Sherpa aims one
last summit of Mt Shishapangma next year, after
two previous climbs, before retiring to focus on
training and rescue work, by Kedar Shiwakoti
(kp 05/08/2024)
Nepal,
China mountaineering agencies agree to enhance
rescue capabilities : An MoU in this regard has
been signed between the NMA and China’s Xizang
Autonomous Region Sports Federation, the latter
being responsible for mountaineering in China
(kp 22/07/2024)
How
bodies of frozen climbers were finally recovered
from Everest ‘death zone’ (kh 20/07/2024)
How
costly will Everest be? Climbing rules are
changing : New regulations will address issues
like garbage, limiting footfall, and revenue
generation from world’s tallest peak, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 06/07/2024), Mount
Everest’s highest camp is littered with frozen
garbage (kh 06/07/2024) [In view of the fact that high
mountain tourism on Everest is massively and
sustainably destroying people's habitat, it
should simply be banned, or these tourists
should be obliged to bring all the utensils back
down from the mountain. As Nepal has so far been
left to bear the consequential costs on its own,
the planned fees of about 15,000 dollars are far
too low!]
As
ice melts, Everest's 'death zone' gives up its
ghosts (rep 29/06/2024)
14
climbed Cho Oyu in 70 years. 7 did it last week
to find route : On June 7, the expedition
explored a commercial route, raising hope for
the mountain’s viability from Nepal side (kp
13/06/2024)
Everest
becomes cash cow. Nepal’s top court orders limit
on climbs : Expedition organisers say curbs a
bad idea. Instead, they suggest making novices
climb smaller peaks before Everest, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 01/06/2024)
Indian
climber dies after Everest bid, eighth death
this season (rep 28/05/2024)
Five
climbers die, three missing on Everest this
season (rep 24/05/2024)
Kenyan
climber dies on Everest, Nepali guide missing
(rep 23/05/2024)
Nepali
smashes women's record for fastest ascent of
Everest (rep 23/05/2024), Phunjo
Lama becomes fastest woman to summit Mt Everest
(kh 24/05/2024), Phunjo
Lama reclaims women’s fastest Everest climb
record : Left the base camp at 3:52 pm May 22,
reached summit at 6:23 am and returned to the
camp at 4:18 pm May 23 (kp 24/05/2024)
Actor
and model Chhiring Sherpa atop Sagarmatha
(rep 22/05/2024)
Kami
Rita Sherpa summits Mt. Everest for 30th time
(kh 22/05/2024)
Two
go missing while descending from Everest summit
(ae 22/05/2024)
Nims
Purja allegedly defies helicopter ban, lands at
Everest Camp II (kh 20/05/2024)
Two
climbers from Mongolia go missing during Everest
expedition (rep 14/05/2024), Adverse
weather hampers Mt Everest expedition; Search
for missing climbers continues (kh
15/05/2024), Mongolian
dies on Everest in season’s first fatality. His
compatriot still missing (kp 18/05/2024)
Kamirita
Sherpa achieves historic 29th ascent of Mt
Everest (kh 12/05/2024), Kami
Rita summits Everest 29th time, eyes yet another
climb this season : His contender Pasang Dawa
Sherpa with 27 summits says he ‘doesn’t want’ to
race in thin air, by Sangam Prasain (kp
13/05/2024)
First
Spring ascent of Mt Everest; 10 climbers reach
summit (kh 11/05/2024), Ten
Sherpa members scale Mt Everest (rep
11/05/2024)
Everest:
A high-altitude garbage dump : It could pose
health risks for transient climbers but a more
serious threat to people living in nearby
settlements, by Suzanne OConnell &
Alton C Byers (kp 10/05/2024)
Nepali
guide dies on Himalayan peak as climbing season
begins (rep 10/05/2024)
Is
it possible to limit the number of climbers?,
by Kamal Dev Bhattarai (ae 08/05/2024)
414
climbers granted permission to scale Mount
Everest (kh 07/05/2024)
Rs
635.7 mln revenue collected from mountaineering
in two months (rn 02/05/2024) [That's not even 45 million
euros! Considering the severe environmental and
waste problems caused by mountaineering, this is
peanuts!]
Record-holder
climber Kami Rita to ascend Mt Everest for 29th
time (rep 01/05/2024)
Nepalis
demand safeguards a decade after deadly Everest
disaster, by Paavan Mathema (ae 16/04/2024)
63
climbers receive permits for Mt Everest
expedition in Spring (kh 02/04/2024)
DoT
to issue permits for Mt Everest ascent from
today (kh 26/03/2024)
As
many as 400 foreign climbers set to climb Mt
Everest this Spring (kh 11/03/2024)
Tracking
chip now mandatory for Everest aspirants : As
fatalities on Everest continue to grow, the
government has made tracking devices compulsory
for climbers and guides for prompt search and
rescue, by Sangam Prasain (kp 07/03/2024)
Dispelling
myths about climbing : Nepal’s Himalayan peaks
are not crowded, and they have not run out of
mountaineering challenges, by Edward Morgan
(nt 23/02/2024), Mt
Everest (Pvt) Ltd : A century after the first
attempt to climb the world’s highest mountain,
it is not so lonely at the top, bny Vishad
Onta (nt 23/02/2024)
Mount
Everest: Climbers will need to bring poo back to
base camp (kh 08/02/2024)
Mountain
climbers do not receive certificates even after
mountain conquest; 15-day deadline for
complaints (rep 08/01/2024)
Govt
grants NMA 5-year extension to manage and
promote 27 peaks (rep 05/01/2024)
678
climbers receive permits to scale 36 mountains
(ht 12/10/2023)
World
record climber Sherpa missing in avalanche
(kh 09/10/2023)
339
mountaineers receive permits to scale various
mountains for autumn season (rep 20/09/2023)
Autumn
mountain climbing permits attract diverse
international interest (rep 11/09/2023)
Permits
Granted: 65 mountaineers set to conquer Manaslu
and Raksha Urai Himal this autumn (rep
03/09/2023)
NMA
estimates income collection of Rs 159 million
this fiscal year (ht 01/09/2023)
Dawa
Yangzum scales 12 peaks, becomes first Nepali
woman to climb most 8,000ers (ht 23/07/2023)
More
porters sick on Everest trail : Why was the 2023
spring season so dangerous for trekkers,
mountaineers and their guides on Everest?,
by Buddha Basnyat (nt 07/07/2023)
Record
Everest season but one of its deadliest (ht
10/06/2023)
Clean
Mountain campaign run by Nepali Army collects
35700 kgs of garbage (rep 05/06/2023) [The crazy mountaineers must
be held responsible for this, who ruthlessly
clutter up Nepal's beautiful nature!]
Fourteen
mountaineers scale Mt Kanchenjunga today (kh
01/06/2023)
Lhakpa
Sonam suggests Everest solutions : The remedies
range from relocation of base camp to management
of chopper flights in Everest (ht
31/05/2023)
Sangita
Rokaya vocals against Chhaupadi from Sagarmatha
top (kh 30/05/2023)
17
feared dead on Everest this season (ht
27/05/2023)
“Without
Sherpas, there is no mountaineering” : Kami Rita
Sherpa scaled Mt Everest for the 27th time last
week, but says younger Sherpas no longer want to
be guides, by Bhadra Sharma (nt 26/05/2023)
NA
collects more than 35,000 kg of garbage from
mountains (kh 26/05/2023)
Nima
Rinji becomes youngest climber to scale Lhotse,
accomplishes double headers (ht 25/05/2023)
Kristin
Harila scales Everest, Lhotse in 8hrs completing
six 8,000ers in less than a month (ht
23/05/2023)
Two
Sherpas race in thin air for prestigious world
record : Pasang Dawa summited Everest for the
27th time on Monday morning. Kami Rita plans his
28th climb on Tuesday morning to reclaim the
title for most ascents, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 23/05/2023), Kami
Rita sets record by submitting Mt. Everest for
28th time (kh 23/05/2023)
Everest
death toll reaches 11, two still missing (ht
23/05/2023)
500
atop Mount Everest (rn 22/05/2023)
Kami
Rita Sherpa sets for the 28th climb of Everest,
his fifth dual ascent : On May 17, Kami Rita
reached the top of Everest for the 27th time,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 21/05/2023)
Australian
engineer dies at Balcony area, Everest death
toll reaches 10, two still missing (ht
21/05/2023)
Hari
Budha Magar creates history as first double
above-knee amputee to climb Mount Everest : “We
just had to carry on and push for the top, no
matter how much it hurt or how long it took," he
said nlt 21/05/2023)
Malaysian
police dies on Everest, death toll reaches nine
(ht 20/05/2023), Singaporean
climber missing above 8,000m on Everest (ht
20/05/2023), Deaf
Malaysian missing from Everest South Col, Piyali
airlifted to Lukla from Makalu (ht
20/05/2023)
16-year-old
Chinese girl scales Everest (rep 18/05/2023)
Chinese
climber dies above 8,000m on Everest, death toll
reaches 8 (ht 18/05/2023), Indian
national dies of altitude sickness in Everest
region (ae 18/05/2023), Mt
Everest climber Xuebin Chen dies during oxygen
replacement, by Enika Rai (rep 19/05/2023)
Yeti
group chair Lhakpa Sonam scales Everest,
completes all seven summits (ht 18/05/2023)
Kami
Rita breaks his own record with 27th climb to Mt
Everest (kh 17/05/2023), Kami
Rita Sherpa breaks his own record, climbs
Everest for 27th time : This spring, the
Department of Tourism has issued permits to 478
fee-paying individuals, the highest permits
issuance on record, to climb Everest (kp
17/05/2023)
Sherpa
climber dies below Camp IV : Nepali Army captain
being rescued from Everest (ht 17/05/2023)
Dhaulagiri
sees first ascent of this season (kh
17/05/2023)
NatGeo
team scales Everest carrying out maintenance on
Bishop Rock station (ht 16/05/2023)
Pakistani
climber reaches Everest’s summit (rep
14/05/2023), Pasang
Dawa scales Everest for 26 times, Naila Kiani
completes five 8000er (ht 14/05/2023), Pasang
Dawa Sherpa ties 26 Everest ascents record :
This spring, the department has issued Everest
permits to 478 fee-paying individuals, the
highest on record, by Sangam Prasain (kp
15/05/2023)
470
climbers in bid to scale Everest (ht
14/05/2023)
Harila,
among other climbers, summit Makalu (ht
14/05/2023
Govt
collects over Rs 740 million from expedition
permits this spring (ae 09/05/2023)
Mt
Everest witnesses highest number of climbers in
seven decades (kh 02/05/2023)
The
Icefall Doctors, by Saudamini Chalise (rn
28/04/2023)
Over
400 obtain Sagarmatha climbing permit this
season (kh 27/04/2023)
More
than 1,000 climbing permits issued for spring
climbing season (ht 25/04/2023)
Race
to the Everest summit: Chinese, US climbers top
list : Nepal has issued a record 454 permits to
climb the tallest peak as of Friday—96 of whom
are Chinese, 87 Americans, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 24/04/2023)
Number
of climbers for spring season surges by 45pc
(ht 17/04/2023)
Nepal
celebrating 70 years of Sagarmatha ascent this
year (kh 16/04/2023)
Double
amputee Hari Budha Magar sets sights on Everest
: The 43-year-old army veteran plans to walk for
more than 60 hours to the top of Everest and
back to base camp, by Sangam Prasain (kp
15/04/2023)
Nepal
opens Jugal mountain range for climbing (rep
14/04/2023)
Three
Sherpa missing after falling into crevasse on
Mount Everest : The Sherpas fell 50 meters into
a crevasse. The rescue operation has not been
successful so far (nlt 12/04/2023), Three
climbers missing in avalanche in Mount Everest
(kh 12/04/2023), At
least three Sherpa guides buried in Everest
after massive ice mass movement : The
possibility of finding the missing climbers
alive is “very slim”, officials from the base
camp said, by Sangam Prasain (kp
12/04/2023), Rescuers
abandon search for guides buried in Everest :
Millions of tonnes of ice moved downslope and
covered the three Sherpas in season’s first
accident on the tallest peak, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 13/04/2023)
Nearly
500 climbers may try to scale Everest this
season : In 2021, Nepal’s Department of Tourism
had issued a record 409 Everest permits, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 08/04/2023)
Cleaning
up the Himalayas—a gigantic challenge, by
Suresh Paudel (ae 30/03/2023)
Nepal
Army to collect 35,000 kgs of garbage from the
mountains (rep 18/03/2023)
Corpses
pile up on mountains, recovery cost high, by
Sangay Sherpa (ht 20/02/2023)
A
Spanish, six Nepalis make rare winter ascent of
Mount Manaslu : The Nepali team to scale the
mountain is comprised solely of Sherpas, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 07/01/2023)
Rs
93m collected from issuing climbing permits
(ht 07/12/2022)
Ropes
on climbing routes litter Mount Everest : Around
50 tonnes of climbing ropes are estimated to lie
buried under the snow on different mountains,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 03/12/2022)
Revenue
collection from mountain climbing doubles this
year, by Enika Rai (rep 01/12/2022)
161
including 77 foreigners climb Mt Manaslu this
spring (rn 31/10/2022)
901
mountaineers granted permits for winter
expeditions (nlt 15/10/2022)
Korean
and Nepali missing in avalanche at Dhaulagiri
Base Camp (rep 10/10/2022)
Govt
collects highest amount of royalty from Mt
Manaslu climbing permits, by Enika Rai (rep
10/10/2022)
Avalanche
hits Manaslu Base Camp (kh 02/10/2022), Body
of missing Sherpa found in Manaslu (rep
03/10/2022)
Manaslu
sees steep climb in permit numbers : Behind this
year’s historic high number is the climbers’
motivation to scale the ‘true summit’—a
snow-covered rock outcrop that is very steep,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 01/10/2022)
Avalanche
hits Manaslu base camp, 12 people injured
(kh 26/09/2022), Several
reportedly injured in avalanche on Mount Manaslu
: Although there have been reports of injuries,
the reports are yet to be ascertained, say
government official (kh 26/09/2022), Eight stranded in Manaslu avalanche :
Rescue teams are facing difficulties conducting
rescue operations due to bad weather in the
mountains, said police, by Hariram Upreti
(kh 26/09/2022), Manaslu
avalanche: One killed, several others injured,
by Narhari Sapkota (rep 26/09/2022), Renowned
American ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson missing
from Mount Manaslu (ht 26/09/2022), Four
people trapped in Manaslu avalanche rescued
(kh 26/09/2022), Six
people trapped in Manaslu avalanche rescued
Tuesday morning (kh 27/09/2022), Hilaree
Nelson, the famed ski mountaineer, missing after
falling into a crevasse on Manaslu
In a separate incident, a powerful avalanche on
Mount Manaslu kills Anup Rai, a guide, and
injures many others, by Sangam Prasain
(27/09/2022), One
killed and 10 rescued in Manaslu avalanche
(kh 27/09/2022), American
mountaineer Nelson found dead in Manaslu (kh
28/09/2022)
472
climbers receive permits to scale country's
mountains (ht 20/09/2022)
Nepal
to move Everest Base Camp from melting glacier
(kh 17/06/2022), Efforts
underway to relocate Everest Base Camp,
mountaineers suggest not to hurry (rep
21/06/2022)
Nima
Nuru elected president of NMA (kh
11/06/2022)
Norwegian
woman, two Sherpa climbers set record scaling
six 8,000ers in 29 days (ht 27/05/2022)
Army
collects 30,000 kg mountain waste (rn
21/05/2022)
Everest
summits: It's 25 for Pasang Dawa, 24 for Ngima
Nuru (ht 21/05/2022)
This
climbing season may close early (rn
21/05/2022)
150
climbers reach atop Everest, as a Nepali woman
breaks her own record with the 10th ascent : Six
out of ten all-Black teams also made it to the
top as spring climbing season is underway,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 12/05/2022), Nepali
woman scales Everest for record 10th time
(ht 12/05/2022)
Hopes
to rescue missing guide fade as aerial, ground
searches end sans progress in Lhotse (ht
09/05/2022)
Russian
climber died at Camp I on Everest (nlt
08/05/2022)
Kami
Rita scales Everest for 26th time as Everest
summit route opens (ht 07/05/2022)
Indian
climber dies on Mt Kanchenjunga (nlt
06/05/2022)
DoT
collects Rs 470.92m in royalties from issuing
climbing permits (ht 06/05/2022)
899
climbers reach base camps to climb 25 mountains
(rn 01/05/2022)
109
teams acquire permits for climbing peaks this
spring season (kh 27/04/2022)
Dept
of Tourism issues 876 climbing permits, collects
over Rs 448.09 million in royalties (ht
26/04/2022)
Route
construction to Everest summit from tomorrow
(rn 16/04/2022)
Everest
records season's first casualty as Sherpa
climber dies below Camp I (ht 15/04/2022)
689
climbers of 84 teams so far acquire permits for
climbing various peaks this spring season
(kh 14/04/2022), 689
mountaineers of 84 teams so far acquire permits
for spring season : Tourism entrepreneurs say
they are enthusiastic to see the atmosphere
suggesting good indicators in the tourism sector
with the slowing down of Covid-19 risk (nlt
14/04/2022)
Lhakpa
Sherpa aims to set new record at Mt Everest
(ht 12/04/2022)
22
Mountaineers Climb Mt. Dhaulagiri : First
successful climbing in 2022 (rn 11/04/2022),
Greek
alpinist Antonios Sykaris dies after scaling Mt
Dhaulagiri (ht 12/04/2022)
Ropes
fixed up to Camp II of Mt Everest for spring
ascent : With the onset of the tourist season,
the number of foreign tourists visiting Khumbu
in the Everest region has increased (nlt
09/04/2022)
342
people from 13 mountaineering groups climbing
mountains this spring (kh 05/04/2022)
Tourism
department issues 128 climbing permits for
spring (rep 29/03/2022)
Icefall
doctors’ team at Everest Base Camp (kh
21/03/2022)
Rope
fixing on Everest and Lhotse for spring climbing
season commences (rep 19/03/2022)
Climbing
season in Nepal likely to suffer if
Russia-Ukraine conflict escalates (rep
10/03/2022)
Pollution:
Height of Mt Everest of clothing “disposed of
every seven minutes”, by Eak Raj Bastola (kh
26/02/2022)
Tribute
to grandfather: Tenzing Jangbu climbing Everest
to pay tribute to Ang Rita Sherpa, by Eak
Raj Bastola (kp 12/02/2022)
Future
of mountaineering in Nepal : The growing
popularity of mountaineering means adequate
human resources are essential, by Jinesh
Sindurakar (kp 09/02/2022)
Plight
of the Sherpas: “Is our retired life secure?”,
by Eak Raj Bastola (kh 29/12/2021)
Mt
Saipal, a virgin peak in farwest, still waiting
for daring climbers (kh 28/12/2021)
Made
for the mountains : Having started his
mountaineering career in 2008, Mingma David
Sherpa, 32, is now one of the most recognised
climbers of his generation, by Pasang Dorjee
(kp 25/12/2021)
New
trail to Everest found. Climbers could avoid the
dangerous Khumbu Icefall : A Nepali-French team
claims to have explored alternative route to the
summit. Feasibility will be tested in spring,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 04/12/2021)
British
mountaineer dies in Khumbu region (kh
06/11/2021)
Three
French climbers reported missing in Everest
region : Inclement weather hinders search
mission, by Sangam Prasain (kp 01/11/2021),
Bodies
of French climbers found under snow, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 09/11/2021)
Everest's
100 Years Of Destiny And Death On The Roof The
World, by Maureen O'Hare (rn 25/10/2021)
Danish
tourist dies at Makalu base camp (kh
24/10/2021)
Nepali
woman scales Mt Dhaulagiri (kh 01/10/2021),
Photojournalist
Poornima Shrestha scales Mt Dhaulagiri with 19
others (rep 01/10/2021) [Together with
Pasang Lamu Sherpa], Shrestha,
Sherpa Become First Nepali Women To Summit
Dhaulagiri (rn 02/10/2021)
First
casualty of the season on Manaslu as Canadian
climber dies above 7,000m (ht 29/09/2021), First
in 45 years, 22 climbers make rare autumn ascent
of Manaslu summit : The main peak is 8,163
metres high, and the mountaineering fraternity
has lauded the climbers for conquering the
‘true summit’, first time since 1976, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 01/10/2021)
Nepalis
are not just climbing mountains but studying
them too, by Birat Anupam (rec 08/09/2021)
160
climbers receive permits to climb Mt Manaslu
(rep 07/09/2021)
Lack
of certificates worries professional
mountaineering guides (ht 25/08/2021)
Govt
extends Mt Everest climbing season till June 3
(kh 30/05/2021), Everest
climbing season extended to June 3 as scores
wait for fair weather : The spring season ends
in May as the summer heat melts ice, making
climbing dangerous. But with snowfall over
the last few days, officials rule out the risk,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 30/05/2021) [The fact is that the
officials have no idea at all and are only
marginally interested in the safety aspect!
Couldn't it be that all the fresh snow makes a
climb even more dangerous?]
Four
bodies recovered, 27,671 kg garbage collected
from mountains, including Everest (kh
30/05/2021)
Heavy
snowfall at Everest Base Camp hits
mountaineering (kh 27/05/2021)
Despite
coronavirus scare, more than 170 climbers summit
Everest in a day : With a record 408 permits
issued, the mountain remains crowded even after
many abandoned their ascent as climbers and
guides show Covid-19 symptoms, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 24/05/2021) [This
entire action this year is totally reckless and
irresponsible on the part of the climbers, the
agencies involved and especially the Oli
government for allowing such a thing to happen!
In this way, the virus is being carried in a
massive way into a remote mountain region that
has so far been able to seal itself off to some
extent!]
Everest
death-toll reaches three this season with one
fatality reported today (ht 18/05/2021), Sherpa
falls to death on Everest while descending :
More than 200 climbers have reached Camp 2 and
they are likely to begin their summit push
on May 21 (kp 19/05/2021)
Furtenbach
Adventures first expedition organiser to cancel
Everest ascends amid COVID-19 concerns (ht
16/05/2021)
China
cancels Everest climbs over fears of virus from
Nepal (ht 16/05/2021)
Sagarmatha
sees first deaths of 2021 expedition (rep
13/05/2021)
China’s
‘separation line’ plan at Everest summit over
virus fears raises questionsNepal reports more
Covid-19 deaths and record daily new
infectionsOli loses vote of confidenceNepal
officials and mountaineers call it fanciful,
something impractical to enforce on the
mountaintop, which is just about 25 square
metres in area, by Sangam Prasain (kp
11/05/2021)
12
Nepalis atop Mt Everest amid virus scare : Kami
Rita Sherpa led the group and climbed the
mountain for a record 25 times. The ascent in
the time of a pandemic is the season’s earliest
in more than two decades, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 08/05/2021), Summit
route opens as Kami Rita scales Everest 25 times
(ht 08/05/2021)
Virus
in the Himalaya : Without testing, there is no
way to rule out coronavirus transmission on
Everest (kp 07/05/2021)
Mountaineering
sector recovery in doubt, by Arpana Ale
Magar 06/05/2021)
Mt
Everest at risk of outbreak as Covid-19 reaches
Dhaulagiri : Government and mountaineering
officials dismiss reports, but Nepal’s record
surge in cases has set off alarm bells, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 06/05/2021)
Everest
saw its first Covid-19 case last week and this
week all-time high number of permits : 394
Everest permits have been issued to
climbers even as Nepal has been reporting
a steady rise in new coronavirus infections over
the last two weeks (kp 24/04/2021) [All
oxygen available in the country should be used
exclusively for Covid-19 patients and not for
mountaineers!]
Nepal
sets climber quotas to prevent crowds on Everest
: Tourism Department has issued Everest permits
to 377 climbers so far, and the number is
expected to rise close to 400, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 22/04/2021)
Six
Nepali women scale Mt Annapurna, by Arpana
Ale Magar (ht 17/04/2021)
465
climbers get permission to scale 11 mountains
this spring season : The Department of Tourism
has collected Rs 381.2 million as royalty from
the climbers in the spring season, 2021 (rep
13/04/2021), DoT
grants permission to 465 climbers to scale 11
mountains this spring (kh 13/04/2021)
Pandemic?
It’s not there on Everest : Everest, closed last
year, sees a high number of climbers. So far 244
individual permits have been issued and
officials expect this number to near 2019 record
of 381, by Sangam Prasain (kp 11/04/2021)
Dispute
over mountain guide license: DoT must reconsider
decision, by Jinesh Sindurakar (ht
06/04/2021)
31
climbers permitted to climb Sagarmatha this
spring season, by Minraj Bhandari (rep
01/04/2021)
Nepal
issues first Everest climbing permit after a
year : A 16-member team from the Bahrain Defence
Force has been issued with the permit to climb
the mountain (kp 27/03/2021), 'Expedition
is incomplete without the Sherpas', by
Arpana Ale Magar (ht 27/03/2021)
No
dissemination of pictures of others on Everest
without consent : As the mountaineering season
nears, the Department of Tourism introduces a
slew of rules to avoid controversies. These are
old rules and cannot be enforced, say observers,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 10/03/2021), Permit
must for shooting promotional videos on Everest,
other mountains; Tourist arrival rules not
relaxed (ht 13/03/2021)
Sherpas
should step out of the shadows : Their
contribution to mountaineering successes is
often overlooked by the global media, by
Tsewang Nuru Sherpa (kp 26/02/2021)
Everest
Summiteers Association elects new executive
committee (ht 26/02/2021)
DoT
starts distributing spring season climbing
permits (ht 22/02/2021)
Nepal
bans three Indian nationals from climbing its
mountains for faking ascent of Everest : Their
high-altitude guide is fined Rs10,000 for making
a false report but liaison officer is let off
with a warning (kp 12/02/2021)
Sherpas,
Gurkhas and the ghosts of the Himalaya : It took
more than 100 years, but recognition has finally
come by Nepali mountain climbers, by Deepak
Thapa (kp 04/02/2021)
Officials
supporting Everest climbers to be strapped with
GPS device this spring : The use of technology
is aimed at preventing fake summit claims and
stopping liaison officers from pocketing money,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 04/02/2021)
Nepali
climbers script history scaling K2 in winter
season (ht 17/01/2021), Mission
possible: Ten Nepalis become first to climb Mt
K2 in the dead of winter : For the last three
weeks, around 60 mountaineers had battled high
winds, heavy snowfall, rockfall and chilling
cold to achieve what many had long believed to
be impossible, by Sangam Prasain (kp
17/01/2021)
Six
expedition permits issued for winter season
(ht 07/01/2021)
Support
the Sherpas : The government must do better than
just handing out assurances (kp 16/12/2020)
Two
expedition teams receive permits to scale two
mountains this winter (rep 04/12/2020)
What
is it about Ama Dablam? Elegant but dangerous
peak in Nepal draws mountaineers despite the
pandemic (nt 20/11/2020)
Triumph
at 29,000 feet: Everest has seen over 6,500
footfalls since first ascent in 1953In recent
years, summit hopefuls have been growing since
the tragedy on the tallest mountain in 2014 and
its closure following the 2015 earthquake,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 17/10/2020)
Prince
of Bahrain, 17 others arriving in Nepal for
mountaineering (rep 01/09/2020) [This must be seen as another
consistent stance of the Oli government. For
months, Nepalese citizens have been returned to
their own country only extremely filtered, but
foreigners with a lot of money are allowed to
enter the country, which has been sealed off for
months, for pure pleasure. How much bribe money
did they pay?[
Mountaineering
activities resume from today, by Muna
Sunuwar (rep 30/07/2020), Nepal
to reopen Everest to climbers despite
coronavirus case rise (ht 31/07/2020)
Hit
hard by pandemic, Sherpa widows face uphill
battle: Contagion has hampered their plan to
provide job oriented training for fellow widows
(ht 08/07/2020)
Nepal’s
mountaineers hopeful of Autumn Season, by
Eak Raj Bastola (kh 04/04/2020)
With
Everest expeditions cancelled, guides and
porters could carry down trash and dead bodies:
As Everest is free of climbers, this is an
opportune moment to employ jobless sherpas and
guides to haul trash and bodies off the
mountain, mountaineers say, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 18/03/2020)
Nepal
government puts all tourist visas on hold and
cancels all spring climbing expeditions: The
visa suspension will begin March 14 and last
until the end of April, depriving Nepal of
millions in Everest climbing fees, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 13/03/2020), Pandemic
shuts down Everest, permits scrapped (ht
14/03/2020)
Submission
of 14-day travel record mandatory for expedition
permit (ht 11/03/2020)
Sherpas
fixing two ropes to ease Everest traffic jam
(rep 08/03/2020)
Inclement
weather halts all three winter Everest
expeditions: Heavy snowfall for two days on the
world’s highest peak has led to the cancellation
of all expeditions planned for the winter,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 29/02/2020)
25
mountains successfully climbed this autumn
(rep 16/01/2020)
Five
mountaineers to attempt extreme winter ascent of
Everest: Two German and three Spanish climbers
will try to scale the world's tallest peak
without oxygen, by Sangam Prasain (kp
14/01/2020)
Total
535 successful ascents last autumn (ht
14/01/2020)
Rs
1.68 million in expedition royalties collected
this winter (rep 12/01/2020)
Zero
climbing fees to boost Visit Nepal 2020: The
government aims to lure climbers and promote
peaks which have received little attention,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 21/12/2019)
Climbing
Everest will now require a full medical history,
insurance and a certificate: The Department of
Tourism has come up with new mountaineering
rules in the wake of a crowded season that saw
nine deaths on the world’s highest peak, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 16/12/2019)
1,200
climbers acquire permission to climb different
mountains in autumn season (rep 20/11/2019)
Five
virgin peaks successfully scaled this autumn
season (ht 11/11/2019)
Climbing
Mount Everest and the evolving East-West
relationship: Hope remains that, with publicity
and exposure, both Nirmal Purja and Lhakpa
Sherpa receive better treatment than their
predecessors, by Pramod Mishra (kp
07/11/2019)
After
a smashing record, Nirmal Purja hopes he
inspired the next generation: The 36-year-old
former Gurkha made history on Tuesday after
scaling all 8,000 meters peaks in the shortest
span of time, by Sangam Prasain (kp
31/10/2019), 14
eight-thousander peaks in six months, by
Rajan Pokhrel (ht 31/10/2019)
Planned
autumn attempts on Everest cancelled due to bad
weather: Climbers said that the 'post-monsoon'
autumn season on the world's highest peak was a
tough one this year, by Sangam Prasain (kp
23/10/2019)
Rs
49.28 million collected in mountaineering
royalty, by Sujeeta Pradhan (rep 13/10/2019)
10
climbers to make autumn Everest ascent after
nine years: The last time someone climbed the
world's highest peak in autumn was in 2010,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 09/09/2019)
Govt
prepares to open more peaks for climbing
(rep 07/09/2019)
230
permitted to climb six mountains this autumn,
by Muna Sunuwar (rep 04/09/2019)
SC
lets differently-abled climbers get
permits to scale mountains (ht 29/06/2019)
How
to restore the lure of Everest: Legendary
British mountaineer offers solutions to
overcrowding on the summit this spring, by
Doug Scott (nt 28/06/2019)
Yet
another case of morphed photo claiming Mount
Everest summit, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht
27/06/2019)
Trash
Mountain: Abandoned tents add to detritus on
Mount Everest (ht 25/06/2019) [All mountaineers who do not
bring their waste back to Kathmandu must be
punished severely!]
281
climbers scaled Everest this
springDepartment of Tourism collected Rs 442m
royalty from Everest expeditions (ht
12/06/2019)
Traffic
jams aren’t killing people, inexperienced guides
are, 24-time Everest summiteer says Kami Rita
Sherpa, who broke his own record for most
Everest ascents this year, opens up about the
problems on Everest—and about the reluctance to
fix them, by Pranaya SJB Rana (kp
05/06/2019)
Authorities
consider barring weak climbers from Everest
after a spate of deaths: Government may make an
advanced climbing course mandatory for climbers
before their Everest expedition, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 31/05/2019), Lethal
traffic jam: The rising death toll of climbers
has exposed previously unthought-of dangers on
the highest peak on earth, by Thaneshwor
Chalise (kp 31/05/2019), Because
we are there: Ultimately, the responsibility for
survival lies with the climbers themselves,
by Damien Francois (nt 31/05/2019)
Mount
Everest ‘traffic jam’ survivor calls for tougher
rules (ht 28/05/2019), Nine
Everest deaths this season raise questions about
overcrowding, but offer few answers: Officials
continue to defend their plans to issue
permits to a record number of climbers,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 29/05/2019), No
room at the top: Traffic on Mt Everest is
dangerous, the government must pay heed
(kp 29/05/2019)
Four
bodies found in Everest ice melt brought to
Kathmandu (rep 24/05/2019)
Nepal
survey officials install GPS device on Everest
summit (rep 23/05/2019)
250
people want to climb Everest today. Not everyone
will make it: High number of aspiring climbers
at the final camp has raised fears of a traffic
jam, by Sangam Prasain (kp 22/05/2019), In
a new record, over 200 climbers summit Everest
in a single day: The longest single-day weather
window in recorded history saw 250 mountaineers
vying for the top of the world, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 23/05/2019), Despite
assurances from expeditions and government, a
‘traffic jam’ on Everest kills climbers again:
Though a fixed climbing timetable was supposed
to reduce overcrowding on Everest, climbers
were forced to wait for hours on the
ascent and descent, by Sangam Prasain (kp
24/05/2019)
Kami
Rita tops Everest twice in week in new record:
Takes his summit count to 24 (rep
22/05/2019)
14
climbers scale Mt Everest this spring season
(ht 21/05/2019)
Kami
Rita to again do Everest twice in a season: Will
head for the summit on May 22 to top the world’s
highest peak for the 24th time (rep
17/05/2019)
Kami
Rita Sherpa, in a stirring new record, climbs
Everest for the 23rd time: The 49-year-old guide
has been climbing the world’s highest peak
almost every year since 1994, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 16/05/2019)
Four
eight-thousanders see first summit of season on
same day (kp 15/05/2019), With
ropes fixed on Everest, climbers head for summit
(rep 15/05/2019)
Peruvian
climber's dead body airlifted to Kathmandu
(rep 11/05/2019)
Everest
hopefuls
asked to suspend all activity until weather
clears: Severe winds, thought to be a result of
Cyclone Fani, blew away tents at Everest Base
Camp, leading authorities to ask climbers not to
proceed at least today, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 04/05/2019)
Major
clean-up
campaign hopes to rid Everest of 10,000 kg
garbage: The campaign will not only bring back
garbage but also the bodies of dead climbers
that litter the world’s highest peak, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 29/04/2019), 3,000
kg of garbage collected from Mt Everest region
(kp 29/04/2019) [Mountaineers
who donot return their waste to Kathmandu must
be punished!], Three
dead bodies emerge from Everest ice (rep
29/04/2019)
Traffic
snarls on Everest await climbers (rep
28/04/2018)
32,
including Gurkha soldier, scale Mount Annapurna
(ht 24/04/2019)
Army
removes two tons of waste from Everest (rep
20/04/2019) [Make the
mountaineers and their teas responsible! The
destruction of the sensitive environment is not
a trivial offence!]
For
this
season’s Everest climbers, it’s all systems
go—except the weather: Bad weather may force a
record number of climbers to rush up and down
the summit, by Sangam Prasain (kp
19/04/2019)
75
teams so far get climbing permits for spring
season (rep 15/04/2019)
On
Everest
4 years after the Nepal Earthquake: Mountaineer
returns to the world’s highest mountain after
being thwarted by the 2014 and 2015 tragedies,
by Damien Francois (nt 12/04/2019)
Expedition
to remeasure height of Everest (ht
09/04/2019)
Plan
to clear Everest of bodies, trash: The base camp
will be set up by the third week of April to
start the mega campaign, by Rajan Pokhrel
(ht 08/04/2019), Everest
clean-up:
Everest cannot be kept free from refuse unless
the authorities concerned strictly implement the
rules introduced in 2014 (ht 09/04/2019), Exactly
how
high is Mount Everest? Nepal says it will
announce next year: Nepal, home to the tallest
mountain in the world, has relied on the Survey
of India’s measurement for over 50 years. This
year, for the first time, it is deploying
officials to measure the peak’s height, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 09/04/2019)
Icefall
doctors open Everest route using 20 ladders
(ht 06/04/2019)
This
is
what it takes to get a foreigner to Everest:
Behind the herculean task of putting together an
expedition to climb the world’s tallest peak are
nearly a hundred people, from porters and guides
to chefs and sherpas, by Tsering
Ngodup Lama and Deepak Gautam (kp 06/04/2019)
DoT
issues 348 expedition permits, collects Rs 217m
royalty (ht 05/04/2019)
Everest
is crying: Little attention is paid to the ugly
footprints big-spending climbers leave behind,
by Arpan Dahal (kp 01/04/2019)
Nepali
climbers sets sights at maiden ascent of Gyalzen
Peak, by Sangam Prasain (kp 29/03/2019)
DoT
holds back budget for peak profile project citing
lack of work plan, by Arpana Ale Magar (rep
24/02/2019)
Sherpa
climbers seek social security (ht 17/01/2019)
Sherpa
widows to climb Everest (kp 27/12/2018)
Pemba
Dorji stripped of everest speed climb record
(kp 12/11/2018)
Mount
Ghustung in Myagdi records first summit: Gurja
Himal still unclimbed after second summit attempt,
by Santosh Pokharel (rep 31/10/2018)
Govt
collects Rs 37 million in expedition royalties,
by Arpana Ale Magar (rep 27/10/2018)
Nine
climbers
die on Mt Gurja after snowstorm: Climbers had been
waiting in a camp for a fair window of weather to
climb the 7,193-metre peak in western Nepal,
by Ghanshyam Khadka (kp 14/10/2018)
Foreign
climbers stranded on Mt Manaslu, by Rajan
Pokhrel (ht 11/09/2018)
DoT
issues climbing permits to 200 foreigners for
autumn expeditions (rep 04/09/2018)
Trekking
agency faces govt action for forgery: Seven Summit
Treks slapped fine of US$ 44,000; Forgers to get
seven years in jail (ht 30/08/2018)
Mt
Everest climbing regulations: Court overturns ban
on differently abled-climbers (kp 28/06/2018)
Probe
committee formed (ht 05/06/2018)
Annapurna
Expedition Day observed (ht 04/06/2018)
World’s
highest ER battles to save lives on Everest
(kp 02/06/2018)
Everest
litter worries Khumbu folks, by Rajan Pokhrel
(ht 30/05/2018) [The
government must construct sufficient public
toilets at Everest BC and make the mountaineers
responsible for waste disposal!!], The
real quest: Records on Everest make headlines, but
govt must take steps to keep it clean for
posterity (kp 01/06/2018)
65th
anniversary of first Everest ascent: Respect
ethics of mountain climbing: Kanchha Sherpa,
by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 29/05/2018)
Sherpa’s
death on Everest linked to crypto currency (ht
28/05/2018)
Holy
stink! Piles of pooh litter Mt Everest, by
Rajan Pokhrel (ht 25/05/2018)
Debate
rages whether or not Hillary Step has fallen off,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 24/05/2018)
Woman
climber Nima Jangmu Sherpa sets world record,
by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 23/05/2018)
Sherpa
climber dies while ascending Mt Everest from North
Col, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 23/05/2018)
First
Nepali women Journalists team scripts history on
Mt Everest, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 23/05/2018)
IFMGA
guide Damai Sarki Sherpa dies; Everest death toll
reaches five, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 22/05/2018)
Macedonian
climber dies on Mt Everest, Sherpa climber
evacuated (ht 21/05/2018)
Japanese
climber Nobukazu Kuriki found dead on Mt Everest
(ht 21/05/2018)
Purnima
first lenswoman atop Everest (kp 20/05/2018)
Ngima
Nuru Sherpa becomes youngest climber to ascend Mt
Everest for 21st time (ht 20/05/2018)
Sherpa
shortage takes a toll on Everest (kp
19/05/2018)
Shivangi,
youngest Indian woman to climb Mt Everest; 27 more
scale mountain today (ht 18/05/2018)
Each
Everest climber brings 8 kg waste during descent,
by Radha Dhungana (rep 18/05/2018)
Lhakpa
Sherpa scales Mt Everest nine times breaking own
record, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 16/05/2018)
Kami
Rita Sherpa scales Mt Everest for record 22 times
(ht 16/05/2018), Kami
Rita Sherpa summits Everest for record 22nd time,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 17/05/2018)
79-year-old
Japanese oldest climber to scale Mt Lhotse; Sherpa
climber missing on Mt Everest (ht 16/05/2018)
Sherpa
climber dies on Mt Makalu, by Rajan Pokhrel
(ht 15/05/2018)
Australian
climbs Everest, sets ‘fastest seven summit record’
(kp 15/05/2018), 70-year-old
Chinese double amputee scales Mt Everest (kp
15/05/2018)
8
climbers summit Mt Everest, prepare route for
hundreds, by Sangam Prasain (kp 14/05/2018), Summit
route opens from Nepal side, 8 Sherpas scale Mt
Everest (ht 14/05/2018)
Climbers
who skied on Everest in soup, by Rajan Pokhrel
(ht 09/05/2018), Ski
descent on Mt Everest exposes loopholes, by
Rajan Pokhrel (ht 14/05/2018), Govt
allows American climbers to ascend Everest, Lhotse
after illegal ski descent (ht 18/05/2018)
Season’s
first summit on Mt Makalu: Xiao-Dan scales the
peak without oxygen (ht 04/05/2018)
Italian
dies in season’s first casualty on Mt Dhaulagiri
(ht 30/04/2018), Italian
mountaineer dies on Mt Dhaulagiri (kp
01/05/2018)
Mt
Lhotse records first summit of the season (ht
30/04/2018)
768
climbers attempting 26 mountains this spring: 34
expedition teams heading to Everest (rep
29/04/2018)
Two
injured as ice collapse hits Mt Everest route
(ht 26/04/2018)
15
Nepali women attempting Mt Everest this spring,
by Arpana Ale Magar (rep 25/04/2018)
649
climbing permits issued so far (ht 17/04/2018)
2018
Everest season starts with fresh hopes, dreams,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 11/04/2018)
Icefall
doctors open ‘safest’ Everest route (ht
05/04/2018)
70-year-old
double amputee to scale Everest (ht
04/04/2018)
NASA,
climbers tie up to research on Mt Everest, by
Rajan Pokhrel (ht 03/04/2018)
Kami
Rita bids for record 22nd ascent of Everest,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 27/03/2018)
700
high altitude workers to get mountaineering
certificate, by Arpana Ale Magar (rep
25/03/2018)
Call
to ease climbing rules for sustainable
mountaineering (ht 24/03/2018)
Court
stays amendment to Everest climbing rules (kp
08/03/2018)
Govt
move to bar double amputees challenged (ht
27/02/2018)
Govt
hints at easing ban for differently-abled climbers
(kp 21/01/2018)
Austrian
alpinist’s body still on Mt Lobuche East (ht
12/01/2018)
Royalty
from mountaineering expeditions up 28 percent in
2017, by Arpana Ale Magar (rep 08/01/2018)
Govt
ban on blind Everest climbers condemned, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 06/01/2018)
Solo
climbers banned from scaling mountains (ht
31/12/2017)
Mt
Everest climbing regulation: Govt comes up with
stringent safety rules, by Sangam Prasain (kp
29/12/2017)
Dolakha’s
Dawa Yangzum becomes country’s first female
international mountain guide, by Rajan Pokhrel
(ht 28/12/2017)
Double
amputees
to be barred from climbing mountains: Sherpas to
get summit certificates; Lone attempts on Mt
Everest to be banned, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht
06/12/2017)
More
Women climbing Nepali mountains, by Arpana Ale
Magar (rep 04/12/2017)
Tourism
Ministry for allowing NMA to collect fees (kp
27/10/2017)
British
climber dies on Mt Manaslu (kp 26/09/2017)
Season’s
first summit on Mt Manaslu (ht 19/09/2017)
NMA,
TAAN join hands to promote unclimbed peaks, by
Arpana Ale Magar (rep 01/08/2017)
Denying
summit certificates an insult to Sherpas, says
Norbu Tenzing Norgay, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht
20/07/2017)
455
reach
Mount Everest summit this spring: Govt, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 10/06/2017), 449
climbers
including 190 foreigners scale Mt Everest (ht
12/06/2017), Spring
on
Everest: This spring climbing season on Everest
had its mix of triumphs and tragedies. But
controversies and high drama on the summit has
also brought to the limelight lax regulations and
lack of oversight over expeditions being mounted,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 17/06/2017)
Polish
climber
faces deportation (kp 07/06/2017), Nepal
bans
Polish climber over illegal Everest traverse
(kp 09/06/2017), Everest
climber
to be deported after illegal Tibet crossing: DoI
(ht 15/06/2017)
Sherpa
climber
recounts how they got second lease of life on Mt
Everest, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 03/06/2017)
Fraud
at
8,848 metres: Are Everest ascents too easy to
fake? As the numbers heading up Everest have
boomed, many are questioning whether summits need
to be validated more scientifically (kp
02/06/2017)
Oxygen
bottle
theft rampant in high camps of Mt Everest (ht
01/06/2017)
Climbers
risking
their lives to retrieve Everest bodies (kp
31/05/2017), Above
all
things: For Nepal to remain a mountaineering
mecca, safety and spirit of adventure should find
a fine balance (kp 31/05/2017)
Everest
cleaning
campaign: French team clears trash (kp
31/05/2017) [Leaving trash
on the mountains should simply not be allowed!],
Department of Tourism
pledges to do more for Everest cleanup: French
association recovers 5 tons of waste from Everest
(rep 31/05/2017)
Messner
pitches
for alpinism, derides ‘mountain tourism’, by
Rajan Pokhrel (kp 29/05/2017)
Kami
Rita
Sherpa scales Mt Everest 21 times (ht
27/05/2017)
Mount
Everest
is straining under our weight. Time to dump the
bucket list: This deadly season on Everest is a
reminder that we do not own awesome places,
whatever names we give them, by Philip Hoare
(kp 27/05/2017)
Lean-burn
Sherpas
fit for Everest: Nepali mountain guides have a
physiology that uses oxygen more efficiently than
lowlanders, by Roland Pease (kp 25/05/2017)
Everest’s
Hillary
Step intact, say Nepali climbers (kp
25/05/2017), Hillary
Step
still there: Tourism Department: The government
confirms that ‘no casualties’ found and no tents
with dead bodies discovered at South Col of Mount
Everest (kp 27/05/2017)
Extreme
mission
planned to recover body from Everest, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 23/05/2017), High-altitude
experts
to retrieve body from Everest, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 25/05/2017)
Mt
Lhotse
records first successful ascent after three years
(ht 17/05/2017)
Gurkhas
kick
off Everest season with summit success, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 16/05/2017), 35
more
climbers scale Mt Everest as summit bids underway
(ht 17/05/2017), 52
climbers
on Mt. Everest summit so far this season (kp
21/05/2017), Mt
Everest
claims 4th victim this year: 27-year-old Indian
climber Ravi Kumar goes missing, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 22/05/2017), 70
atop
Mt Everest but 2 climbers die (kp 22/05/2017),
First
Albanian
woman among 100 scales Mt Everest (ht
23/05/2017), Body
of
missing mountain guide traced (kp 24/05/2017),
Polish
climber
illegally ‘traverses Everest’: Ascends from North
Col in Tibet and descends from South Col, by
Rajan Pokhrel (ht 24/05/2017), Sherpa
scales
Mt Everest 19 times as summit bids underway
(ht 24/05/2017), First
male
Limbu scales Sagarmatha (ht 24/05/2017), 4
bodies found inside tent at the highest camp on
Everest, by Gopal Sharma (rep 25/05/2017), ‘Reports
of
four new casualties on Everest are misleading’
(kp 26/05/2017)
Nepali
woman
scales Mt Everest eight times breaking own record,
by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 14/05/2017)
Acclimatise
in
bed, climb Mt Everest in half the time (kp
12/05/2017)
Nine
Sherpas
stand atop Mt Everest from Tibet side (kp
12/05/2017)
Everest
expeditions
likely to be delayed by bad weather, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 11/05/2017)
Solo
climber
sans permit fined $22,000 (kp 09/05/2017), South
African
Everest permit dodger arrested: Ryan Sean Davy,
43, will appear in court next week to face charges
related to his Everest attempt (kp
18/05/2017), Everest
permit-dodger
released on Rs 1,000 bail (kp 23/05/2017), Everest
permit
dodger let off $22,000 fine (ht 27/05/2017)
Sherchan,
85,
dies on Everest during world record bid: Initial
reports suggest he had a heart attack. He was
pronounced dead at 5:14pm on Saturday (kp
07/05/2017)
Sherpas
protest
at Everest base camp, demand summit certificates,
by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 03/05/2017), A
valid case: The government should simplify the
process to ensure that the Sherpa workers are also
recognized as part of the expedition (ht
04/05/2017)
Big
rush:
800 Everest hopefuls waiting for weather window,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 03/05/2017)
Famed
Swiss
alpinist dies in Nuptse bid. by Kumbha Raj Rai
(kp 01/05/2017)
3
women arrive at base camp to summit Kanchanjunga,
by Anand Gautam (kp 29/04/2017)
Highest
number
of permits issued for Mt Everest ever: As of
Tuesday’s data, 365 individuals attempting to
scale the 8,848-metre peak (kp 20/04/2017)
Dhaulagiri
base
camp bustling with climbers, by Ghanshyam
Khadka (kp 17/04/2017)
Nepal
grants
climbing permit to 729 mountaineers this season
(ht 16/04/2017)
Summit
of
Your Dream: It’s about conquering the top of the
world and returning home safely, by Pooja
Lakhey (ht 16/04/2017)
Mount
Everest
braces for ‘traffic jam’: About 400 climbers set
to attempt feat this season (kp 16/04/2017), With
more
climbers traffic jam feared (ht 16/04/2017)
Three
women
set out to scale Mt Kanchenjunga (ht
11/04/2017)
Nepal
asks
climbers to clean quake-littered Everest camp
(kp 30/03/2017)
First
batch
of spring climbers head to Mount Everest today,
by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 27/03/2017)
Some
Everest
climbers to be strapped with GPS device (kp
21/03/2017)
Sherchan
launches
bid to reclaim oldest Everester record (kp
07/03/2017) [This is
simply stupid and should not be allowed! It
endangerous Sherpas accompanying him!]
3
women to climb Kanchanjunga (kp 27/02/2017)
Makalu
Adventure
fined USD 4,000 for Everest summit fraud: Climbing
Sherpas reveal Indian police couple never reached
above 6,000 m, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht
26/01/2017)
Spanish
mountaineer
evacuated from Everest (kp 24/01/2017)
Spanish,
French
climbers to climb Everest, Manaslu in style
(ht 27/12/2016)
US
explorer’s
‘record’ lands him in soup: Burch liable for
action for flouting mountaineering law (ht
17/11/2016)
Two
Romanians
ascend Mt Peak 5 for first time (kp
10/11/2016)
All
climbers
don’t stand atop Mt Manaslu while ‘successfully’
summitting it, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht
19/10/2016)
Sherpa
dies
on Lobuche; Japanese missing on Mt Manaslu, by
Rajan Pokhrel (ht 15/10/2016)
Give
no
leniency: As per the Tourism Act and
mountaineering regulations a liaison officer
assigned for a peak must stay at the base camp
from the beginning to the end of every expedition
(ht 04/10/2016)
Over
150
climbers summit Mt Manaslu in two days, by
Rajan Pokhrel (ht 02/10/2016)
Himalayas
mistreated:
nstead of conquering sacred mountains, we should
be conquering our social and political ills,
by Niranjan Mani Dixit (kp 14 August 2016)
Govt
sets
new rules for mountaineers (ht 19/07/2016)
Sherpas
denied
summit certificates, by Rajan Pokhrel (kp
15/07/2016) [Only those
who are carried by the Sherpas to the top get
certificates, not the real heroes?]
The
call
of the mountains, by Prateebha Tuladhar (kp
18/06/2016)
Mt
Everest
records 456 south summits, five deaths, by
Rajan Pokhrel (ht 16/06/2016)
Wind,
snow
hamper search on Everest (kp 26/05/2016)
Over
350
scale Everest, by Sagar Ghimire (rep
23/05/2016)
Australian
and
Dutch climbers die on way back from Everest
(kp 22/05/2016)
Lhakpa
Sherpa
breaks own record to climb Everest a seventh time
(kp 21/05/2016), Lhakpa
talks
of endurance after scaling Everest seven times,
by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 28/05/2016)
A
crowded day atop Everest as over 150 reach summit
(kp 20/05/2016), Over
200
climbers scale Mt Everest (ht 20/05/2016), 202
climbers
atop Mt Everest in a single day (rep
20/05/2016)
88
including
36 foreigners atop Everest in 6 days, by Sagar
Ghimire (rep 17/05/2016)
20
stranded
trekkers rescued: Were descending to Manang after
climbing Mt Saribung in Mustang, by Aash
Gurung (kp 15/05/2016)
First
climbers
set foot on top of Everest in 2 years: Open doors
for expeditioners to reach summit after deadly
disasters (kp 12/05/2016), 9
Sherpa become first to summit Everest in three
years, by Sagar Ghimire (rep 12/05/2016), British
climbers
first foreigners to scale Mt Everest in two years,
by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 13/05/2016), 27
climbers
scale Mt Everest (kp 14/05/2016), Three
more
ascend Mount Everest (kp 15/05/2016)
Slovakian
climbers
rescued after 17 hours, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht
12/05/2016)
97
mountaineering
teams off to different peaks (kp 10/05/2016),
Mountaineers
set
for final push to Everest peak, by Rajan
Pokhrel (ht 10/05/2016)
Icefall
doctors
secure route up to Camp IV (kp 06/05/2016)
Russian
climber
missing in Nepal’s Himalayas (ht 06/05/2016)
Septuagenarian
Spaniard
oldest mountaineer to scale Mt Annapurna: Thirty
climbers scale world’s 10th highest mountain on a
single day in the first successful summit this
spring, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 02/05/2016)
289
climbers
in bid to scale Everest, by Sangam Prasain (kp
01/05/2016)
President
Bhandari
honours mountaineers (ht 01/05/2016)
Four
foreign
climbers dead: Two fell into an icy crevasse,
while two others died of altitude sickness (ht
28/04/2016)
Mt
Everest
climbers move to higher camps, by Rajan
Pokhrel (ht 27/04/2016)
Despite
disasters,
climbers return to Everest (ht 24/04/2016)
Female
climbers
blaze trails for their gender (ht 18/04/2016)
Icefall
doctors
fix climbing route up to Camp II, by Rajan
Pokhrel (ht 10/04/2016)
Disasters
don’t
deter Mt Everest climbers, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 08/04/2016), 130
complain
of altitude sickness, five evacuated (ht
08/04/2016)
Avalanches
hamper
mountaineers' preparations, by Rajan Pokhrel
(ht 06/04/2016)
Base
camp
officials to facilitate climbers, by Rajan
Pokhrel (ht 03/04/2016)
They
die,
we go home, by Mike Chambers (kp 01/04/2016)
Army
personnel
to dominate Mt Everest expeditions this season,
by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 31/03/2016)
Sherchan’s
fresh
bid to be oldest Everesteer, by Anup Ojha (kp
29/03/2016)
Icefall
doctors
report cracks, holes along Everest route, by
Kumbha Raj Rai (kp 25/03/2016) [Next Everest disaster in the waiting?],
Mountaineers
set
for spring bid on Mt Everest, by Rajan Pokhrel
(ht 27/03/2016)
71
climbers
keen to scale Everest, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht
21/03/2016)
Icefall
doctors
back to Everest: Leave for base camp to fix route
for the upcoming climbing season; Climbing
expeditions have been disrupted for two years
because of avalanches and inclement weather
(kp 28/02/2016), ‘Ice
doctors’
return to Everest for spring (ht 29/02/2016)
Everest
permits
to be extended, by Sangam Prasain (kp
20/02/2016), Govt
extends
2015 spring climbing permits by two years, by
Rajan Pokhrel (ht 01/03/2016), 2015
Everest
permits extended for two years, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 02/03/2016)
Proposal
to
extend validity of climbing permits stuck in
finance ministry, by Kriti Bhuju (rep
08/02/2016)
Permit
extension
to benefit 801 climbers, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht
14/01/2016)
Apex
court
rulkes in favour of NMA: Allows it to issue
climbing permits for 33 mountains (ht
04/01/2016)
Climbers
face
ruin after quake, blockade hit Everest industry
(kp 21/12/2015)
NMA
monopoly
on climbing permits ended, by Rajan Pokhrel
(ht 17/10/2015)
Austrian
mountaineer
dies of altitude sickness (ht 04/10/2015)
Tabei
worried
about growing footfalls, by Sangam Prasain (kp
23/09/2015)
Climbers
return
to Manaslu, by Sudip Kaini (kp 18/09/2015)
Profiting
from
tragedy: Expedition operators are using the
avalanche tragedies on Everest to extort climbers,
by Damien Francois (nt 18/09/2015)
French
army
team to scale Annapurna peaks (ht 12/09/2015)
Over
100
climbers attempting to scale Mount Manaslu: 36
teams get permits to ascend Nepali peaks, by
Rajan Pokhrel (kp 08/09/2015)
Icefall
doctors
at base camp to fix Everest route for autumn: Two
Japanese climbers to attempt to scale the world’s
highest mountain in the new season, by Rajan
Pokhrel (ht 18/08/2015)
Petition
for
stay order against NMA dumped (kp 04/08/2015)
NMA
slams
writ against its royalty collection rights (kp
28/07/2015)
NMA
pledges
to do the needful to revive mountain tourism
(ht 25/07/2015)
Mountaineering
experts
suggest ‘safety council’ (kp 18/07/2015)
Govt
to
seek assurances Everest is safe post-quakes
(ht 12/06/2015)
Govt
‘positive’
on extending permits (kp 30/05/2015), Govt
may
extend Everest climbing permits (ht
30/05/2015)
Everest
draws
a blank after four decades of climbing, by
Rajan Pokhrel (ht 29/05/2015)
After
two
disasters on Everest, Sherpas worry about future
(ht 10/05/2015)
Cleaning
instead
of climbing: A multinational group of climbers
decided that even if they couldn’t climb Everest,
they would clean it up, by Damien Francois
Govt
shuts
Everest for this season; Impossible to fix route
above base camp: Icefall doctors (ht
04/05/2015), Everest
expeditions
called off this year too, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 06/05/2015), Govt
urged
to extend climbing permits till ’16 (ht
06/05/2015)
Everest
expeditions
to resume within a week after deadly tremor,
by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 30/04/2015) [?????????????]
Mountaineers
move
to Camp 2; 53 liaison officers yet to reach
Everest Base Camp, by Rajan Pokhrel (kp
24/04/2015), Youngest
and
the oldest climbers (ht 24/04/2015), First
rescue
above Camp 1 (ht 24/04/2015)
Because
it
is there: The lesson from the Everest tragedy is
to spread the benefits of mountaineering to other
areas of Nepal and ensure that mountaineering fees
go for the welfare of high altitude workers
(nt 24/04/2015)
83-year-old
to
scale Everest for 2nd time (kp 23/04/2015), Sherchan,
84,
leaving for Lukla tomorrow: Is in bid to reclaim
the record of oldest person to climb Mt Everest
(ht 23/04/2015)
Avalanche
victims
remembered: Everest climbing halted due to bad
weather, by Khumbaraj Rai (kp 19/04/2015)
Welfare
fund
for trekking, mountaineering workers (kp
19/04/2015), Govt
to
set up welfare fund for trekking workers (ht
19/04/2015)
Everest
expeditions
want choppers to ferry gear to Camp 1, by
Rajan Pokhrel (ht 19/04/2015)
Safe
journey:
Precautions must be taken so that this climbing
season remains disaster free (kp 17/04/2015)
Record
number
of climbers likely to make Everest bid, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 14/04/2015), Snowfall
affects
climbing in Everest region, by Rajan Pokhrel
(ht 14/04/2015), Bad
weather
confines mountaineers in tents, by Sangam
Prasain and Pragati Shah (16/04/2015)
Malaysian
national
missing in Annapurna area for 13 days (ht
13/04/2015)
Icefall
doctors
fix new route: 109 climbers renew their 2014
permits to scale world’s highest peak, by
Rajan Pokhrel (ht 10/04/2015)
Scores
of
mountaineers taken ill: 15 evacuated from Everest
region,150-plus get treatment, by Rajan
Pokhrel (ht 08/04/2015), Scaling
Mt
Everest this season? Before the expedition know
how to deal with High Altitude Illnesses, by
Ritesh Goel (ht 12/04/2015)
Spring
climbing
kick-starts in style, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht
05/04/2015)
Finnish,
Nepali
climbers killed while descending from Annapurna
(ht 26/03/2015)
Work
begins
to establish safer route up Everest, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 24/03/2015)
Aspiring
Everesters
permitted to make another attempt, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 20/03/2015), Govt
extends
individual
mountaineering permits, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht
20/03/2015), Individual
Everest
permits also extended for 5 years, by Kriti
Bhuju (rep 20/03/2015)
Individual
permit
extension awaiting Cabinet approval, by Rajan
Pokhrel (ht 15/03/2015)
Italian
mountaineers
put off bid to scale Mount Manaslu (ht
08/03/2015)
Aftershocks
of
the Everest avalanche: Big drop in Everest
bookings this spring affects the livelihood of
high-altitude Nepali guides, by Om Astha Rai
(nt 27/02/2015)
Govt
indecision
hits spring tourism: Only two climbing
applications filed for the season, none for
Everest, Lhotse or Nuptse (ht 16/02/2015)
Autumn
season
records only 20 per cent successful summits Of the
42 mountains permitted for climbing,only 242
mountaineers summited 16 peaks, by Rajan
Pokhrel (ht 06/02/2015)
Budget
climbing
on its way out, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht
01/02/2015)
Minister
adds
to confusion over climbing permits, by Rajan
Pokhrel (ht 14/01/2015)
Seven
Summits
Women Team arriving home (ht 09/01/2015)
Mount
Everest
climbing season faces uncertainty of Himalayan
proportions, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 08/01/2015) |