Run entirely by local women, the Eco Museum in Sikles showcases the heritage, lifestyle, and legacy of the Gurung community.

The devices will be used to airlift heavy, dangerous loads normally carried by mountain guides. They might even deliver a hot meal or two.

With the rapid changes in the mountaineering industry, including the rising commercialisation of expeditions, sherpas are facing several challenges — reduced job security, climate change, and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

At least two people have been killed in Nepal after protesters demanding the restoration of the abolished monarchy clashed with police. The violence took place on Friday in the east of the capital ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thousands of supporters greeted Nepal’s former king in capital Kathmandu on Sunday and demanded his abolished monarchy be reinstated and Hinduism brought back as a state religion. An estimated ...

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.

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 ...