By Mongabay.com A surge in “helicopter tourism” at Sagarmatha, the Nepali name for Mount Everest, is adversely affecting the ...

Ultimately, climbers can survive on the highest reaches of mountains including Mt. Everest. On Mt. Everest, conventional acclimatizing can take up to two months while climbing up and down the ...

Nepali airlines have resumed helicopter rescue operations in the Everest region after local protests had suspended flights ...

Ngima Nuru Sherpa is small in stature, but he stands tall in the annals of Mount Everest. The 5-foot-7, 150-pound native of Nepal’s Khumbu region has reached the summit of the world’s tallest ...