Nepali photojournalist Purnima Shrestha doesn’t fit the stereotype of the imposing and rugged mountaineer. She stands barely five feet tall, and comes across as soft-spoken and shy. Her ...
Ruth Mallory; a Mount Everest expedition in the 1920s Credit: Getty By June 8 1924, the day George Mallory died on Mount Everest, he had been married to his wife, Ruth, for a decade. While ...
Naila Kiani exudes confidence, the kind that only comes at the dizzying heights of success she has – quite literally – ...
Tenjen Lama Sherpa was one of the most storied mountain guides of his generation. Now, he and two of his brothers are dead, ...
Nepalese authorities said four human corpses and skeletons were found among the 11,000 kilograms of trash removed from Mount Everest and two other nearby peaks in this year’s annual clean-up.
Ariarne Titmus breaks the world record in the women’s 200-meter freestyle at Australia’s Olympic swimming trials BRISBANE, Australia -- Ariarne Titmus breaks the world record in the women’s ...
Nepal army has removed tonnes of rubbish, four dead bodies, and skeletal remains from Mount Everest and two other peaks in the country. A series of clean-up drives spanning 55 days were held to ...
STORY: ::Chinese drone maker DJI completes the world’s first successful drone delivery on Mount Everest ::Mount Everest, Nepal ::It carried three oxygen bottles and other supplies from Everest ...
I have a confession: When I was a wee little teenager searching desperately for a way to validate my wee little life, I wanted to climb Mount Everest. Shameful, I know! But I was just a kid.
While George famously wanted to climb the mountain “Because it’s there,” Ruth was the reason he went and – importantly – the reason he wanted to return. In 1921 – when the proposition ...