Nepal’s mountaineering community has celebrated the 72nd anniversary of the conquest of the world’s highest peak.

Eva Steinwald recently conquered Mount Everest's 29,000-foot summit, becoming one of the oldest Americans to stand atop the world's highest peak.

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 ...

Mountaineers form a queue as they approach the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Kunga Sherpa) Mountaineers form a queue as they approach the summit of Mount Everest in ...

Famed Nepalese Sherpa guide Kami Rita has scaled Mount Everest for the 31st time, breaking his own record for the most successful ascents of the world's highest peak. The 55-year-old climber ...

Sandro Gromen/Associated Press Supported by By Jonathan Wolfe and Bhadra Sharma Jonathan Wolfe reported from London, and Bhadra Sharma from Kathmandu, Nepal. Climbing Mount Everest typically takes ...

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The event Thursday marked the 72nd anniversary of the first summit climb of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953, by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay. Nepal's minister for ...

Nepal's government says it has a “duty to ... 100 climbers from around the world who have successfully tackled Mount Everest. The one-day conference, dubbed the Everest Summiteers Summit ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Hundreds of climbers and their Sherpa guides scaled Mount Everest this month in Nepal, struggling against harsh weather to make it to the summit of the world's highest ...