A 39-year-old US climber died attempting to scale the world's fifth-highest mountain, Makalu, marking the second death of ...

A South Korean climber has died in Nepal after getting caught in a powerful storm while attempting to summit a Himalayan peak just south of Mount Everest. Meanwhile, hundreds of hikers have begun ...

BEIJING (AP) — Early-season snowfalls have stranded hikers in two mountainous areas in western China, including several hundred at the base of Mount Everest, and forced the closing of trails in a ...

A South Korean climber in their 40s died while ascending Merapik in the Himalayas, as hundreds of climbers were stranded due to a blizzard hitting Mount Everest near the Nepal-China border, Reuters ...

Gauchan said that the helicopter’s instrument panel provides a color-coded safety scale of green, yellow, and red. “During rescues, we are in the yellow zone 90 percent of the time,” he said. “The ...