KATHMANDU, Nepal: Help may at last be on the way for the Nepali Sherpas who carry heavy loads for foreign climbers through treacherous sections of the world’s tallest peak. When the main ...

Sherpa Hospitality Group (SHG) is redefining Nepal’s luxury and adventure travel experience, seamlessly blending cultural heritage with sustainable practices to create meaningful and ...

However, the plethora of options reads like a choose-your-own-adventure novel. Enter the sherpas: brokers and agents who promise to guide beneficiaries through the dizzying array of plan options, all ...

With Everest climbing season opening again imminently, the idea of using drones on the world's tallest mountain to ease the load on sherpas has been making waves Officials in Nepal are gearing up to ...

The Sherpa Ice Doctors who find the route through Everest's dangerous Khumbu Icefall will no longer have to hunt for a safe way by trial and error. Cargo drones will ...

Their bodies could not be recovered without risking further collapse. Mingma Gyalje Sherpa, managing director of Imagine Nepal, led the expedition and started looking for ways to improve safety. His ...

Sherpas on Mount Everest are fearing for their jobs after plans were announced to use Chinese drones to ferry equipment up and down the world’s tallest mountain. Perilous tasks that used to take ...

To examine highlanders’ blood acidity at altitude, Day and his colleagues recruited 14 Sherpas and 15 lowlanders from among university students in Kathmandu, Nepal, and ran initial blood tests ...

A team of Sherpas has fixed ropes as far as Camp 2 on Annapurna. On Saturday, they begin work on the treacherous section between Camps 2 and 3.

In a major blow to Nepal’s development efforts, as many as 34 USAID projects worth Rs46.12 billion ($329,429,516) have been permanently terminated, according to multiple media reports coming from the ...

Nearly seventeen years ago - on May 28, 2008, to be exact - Nepal abolished a 239-year-old Hindu monarchy, with Gyanendra Shah as king, and brought the curtain down on a decade-long civil war that ...

Nepal’s former king, King Gyanendra Shah, was welcomed by thousands of his supporters in capital Kathmandu on Sunday, amidst calls for the reinstatement of monarchy and Hinduism as a state religion.