Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a forecast of weaker winds, the recovery team on Makalu will make a new attempt to retrieve the body of Phurba Ongel Sherpa ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is no trace of Abofazl Gozali of Iran, missing on Makalu since Thursday. Fierce winds forced the Sherpa searchers to retreat ...

Climbing the world’s 14 highest peaks — all located in the Himalayas — has long represented the ultimate objective in alpinism. From K2 to Annapurna, these mountains present some of the toughest ...

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Camp 2 below the Lhotse face. Photos: LAKPA SHERPA/8K EXPEDITIONS It is currently summit week on Everest, with strong pre-monsoon storms lashing the world’s highest mountain. Climbers and their Nepali ...

Famed Nepalese Sherpa guide Kami Rita has broken his record for the most successful expeditions of the world's highest peak by scaling Mount Everest for the 31st time. Kami Rita Sherpa has also scaled ...

With a forecast of weaker winds, the recovery team on Makalu will make a new attempt to retrieve the body of Phurba Ongel Sherpa and find client Abofazl Gozali of Iran, missing since last Thursday.