Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everest action is ramping up from near nil to 100 very fast. Yesterday, sherpas fixed the route to the summit of Lhotse. Meanwhile ...

I had planned for a triple summit, with Makalu in the list. But I could not achieve it,’ says Hooghly’s Shuvam Chatterjee ...

Kathmandu, May 27 -- Chinese climber Gexi Luori has set a new chapter in mountaineering history by successfully summiting ...

Hilaree Nelson was in the zone, breathing hard in the proverbial death zone. She and her partner, Jim Morrison, had not yet strapped on oxygen masks as they neared the 27,940-foot summit of Lhotse and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Climbing Everest, Lhotse, and Nuptse in a single season is so rare that only four people have done it. Each peak has its own ...

A team of fixing Sherpas reached the summit of Mt Lhotse (8,516 meters) this evening at 6:45 pm. The six climbing Sherpas from Seven Summit Treks (SST) under the management of Expedition Operators of ...

The elite Sherpa team tasked with fixing ropes to the top of Lhotse summited today, marking the first summit of the season on the Himalayan peak. Lhotse, meaning "South Peak" in Tibetan and the 4th ...

KATHMANDU: At least six climbers successfully stood atop the world’s fourth highest peak making the season’s first ascent of the mountains above 8,000m on Sunday. According to Imagine Treks and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A Portland man is hoping to break two world records for the fastest time to summit Mt. Everest and Mt. Lhotse with his best friend, who is a blind U.S. veteran. “Climbing ...