Kathmandu — An 18-year-old Nepali mountaineer on Wednesday broke the record for the youngest person to summit all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter (26,246-foot) peaks, his team said. Nima Rinji Sherpa ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated. A team of 10 Nepali climbers reached the 28,251-foot summit of K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, on Saturday, January 16th, according to several ...

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Mount Everest saw two record-breaking climbs on Sunday with a Nepali sherpa making the most ever summits and a British climber setting the record for a foreigner. Kami Rita Sherpa, 54, scaled the ...

Newcomer Kabita Nepali takes the co-leading role opposite the U.K.’s Jamie Bacon in “Eklo I,” a film which claims to be Nepal’s first sci-fi movie. Three months of production are now underway in the ...

Ramchandra Khadka stood in front of a temple in the middle of Kathmandu, Nepal, praying for his fellow countrymen who are fighting for Russia in Moscow’s war against Ukraine. As the ceremonial bells ...

The Nepali climbers are the first to summit K2 during its dangerous winter season A team of 10 Nepali climbers has set a new world record by becoming the first to reach the summit of K2, the world's ...

The Himalayan country’s growers are in the budding stages of a loose-leaf revolution. By Max Falkowitz In 1848, the British East India Company gave the botanist Robert Fortune a mission: smuggle live ...