Tenzing-Hillary Airport, also known as Lukla Airport, is a small airport in the town of Lukla, in Khumbu, Solukhumbu District, Nepal. (Getty) Lukla Airport, known officially as Tenzing Hillary Airport ...

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Scan the feedback section of travel sites: they are full of laments from frustrated trekkers stuck at Lukla’s Tenzing-Hillary Airport waiting days on end for flights out. After having descended from ...

Rumor on the trail that the Lukla airport had shut down started a week ago. We were still making our push to Everest Base Camp (17,701 feet) and Kala Patthar (18,315 feet). The weather was starting to ...

Flights to and from the Tenzing-Hillary Airport in Lukla, considered the gateway to Mount Everest, remain shut for the past three days due to adverse weather conditions. It has been raining ...

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The flights to and from Tenzing-Hillary Airport in Lukla, which had been halted for five days due to bad weather, has resumed from today. According to Dwarika Achami, head of Tenzing-Hillary Airport, ...