But environmental activists are using the occasion to call attention to the tons and tons of garbage — and human excrement — that have been left on Mt ... And the picture they are painting ...

Mount Everest’s towering height isn’t shaped by tectonic forces alone. Its continued growth owes a quiet debt to nearby rivers. These rivers, cutting through deep gorges, have helped lift the mountain ...

Our reward is to arrive at Tengboche Monastery, the largest Buddhist gompa (compound) in the Khumbu region, set on a plateau ...

In the wake of a picture that went viral on May 20i9 about the "traffic jam" on Mt Everest taken by one record holder climber, Nirmal Purja, Nepali officials have been facing other similar kinds ...