KATHMANDU: Nepal has begun exporting 40 megawatts (MW) of electricity to Bangladesh through India's power grid in its first ...

A Buddhist "purification ritual" will be held on June 15 to seek the forgiveness of the locals' guardian deity. Read more at ...

Gangtok, The Sikkim Bhutia Lepcha Apex Committee on Saturday appealed to the Nepal government and the Nepal Mountaineering Association to immediately halt a planned expedition to Mt Kangchenjunga, ...

The first-ever study of GPS-collared snow leopards carried out in Nepal has shown that these hyper elusive big cats spend up ...

Most routes are from the Nepal side, so it is unlikely that the measure will succeed. But it does highlight the cultural ...

Horia Colibășanu, one of Romania's most famous high-altitude climbers, is set to embark on a new high-altitude expedition ...

GUWAHATI: Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, expressing concern over the scaling of the “sacred Mount Khangchendzonga” (Mount Kangchenjunga ...

Today is the 70th anniversary of the first ascent of 8,586m Kangchenjunga, the world’s third-highest mountain. Located on the border of Nepal and Sikkim, India, Kangchenjunga means the Five ...

To achieve the no-oxygen distinction, he returned this season to climb Annapurna in April and Kangchenjunga in May, both without artificial oxygen support. "Even though I had summited all 14× ...

GILGIT: Renowned Pakistani climber Sirbaz Khan on Sunday successfully summited Mount Kangchenjunga (8,586 metres), the world’s third highest peak situated in Nepal, without supplemental oxygen.

Renowned Pakistani mountaineer Sirbaz Khan achieved yet another landmark in the history of high-altitude climbing as he successfully summited the world's third-highest mountain, Kangchenjunga ...

Sirbaz Khan on Sunday successfully summited Mt. Kangchenjunga, the world’s third-highest mountain, without supplementary oxygen, becoming the first Pakistani to scale all 14 peaks over 8,000 ...