‘Everest is Calling’ for fully vaccinated travelers. Khumbu region vaccinated 98% of its inhabitants.

The Everest Region is open for “fully” vaccinated domestic and international visitors. Such anticipated good news was announced on 23rd August as the Khumbu Pasanglhamu Municipality vaccinated 98% of its total population above 18 years of age.

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Cumbrian climber attempts extreme triathlon for Nepal

Tim Mosedale leads expeditions up Everest in Nepal Credit: Tim Mosedale

Tim Mosedale leads expeditions up Everest in Nepal Credit: Tim Mosedale

A Cumbrian climber who was leading an expedition on Everest when the earthquakes hit Nepal in April is training to complete 3 extreme sports challenges in the Lake District back to back to raise money for the rebuilding of the country. Continue reading

Google launches virtual tour of Everest region; contribution to armchair tourists

Google launched a virtual tour of Nepal’s Everest region today, allowing armchair tourists a rare glimpse of life in one of the toughest and most inaccessible places on earth.

The Street View project takes viewers into the heart of the Sagarmatha national park, home to the world’s highest mountain, where icy blue rivers run below snow-capped peaks, monks play traditional music and yak-herders n Continue reading

Nepal cuts Mount Everest climbing rates

Everest RegionKathmandu – Nepal cuts Mount Everest climbing rates.The cost of climbing Mount Everest on its Nepal side has been cut by more than half in a bid to tempt back visitors. Numbers have fallen after a number of fatalities and an unprecedented shutdown of Everest, after Sherpa guides refused to climb it in the wake of an avalanche. Nepal has introduced new safety measures but some mountaineers fear that Everest is already too overcrowded during climbing season. Continue reading

Heavy snowfall in Nepal

Mt. EverestKATHMANDU –  Dozens of foreign hikers and Nepali guides returning from a trekking trip to the base camp of Mount Everest have been cut off by heavy snowfall, a police official said on Sunday.

They are staying in four hotel resorts in the Gokyo area near the world’s tallest peak, which has been battered by heavy snowfall following freak rains in the last 24 hours, police officer Chandra Dev Rai said from Salleri, the nearest town Continue reading

Everest climbers to be feliciated in Barcelona

Everest ExpeditionLONDON, May 13 : Mount Everest climbers from around the globe will be honored in Barcelona, Spain on the occasion of Nepal Promotion Day jointly organized by Nepali Embassy in France, Non- Resident Nepalese Association Spain and Nepali Consulate in Barcelona.

According to Nepali Ambassador to France Mohan Krishna Shrestha, on the occasion some four dozens Spanish Everest climbers will be honored amidst a function on June 6. Continue reading

Mexican climber sets Everest record with double summit

KATHMANDU: A veteran Mexican climber was confirmed on Thursday as the first person to climb Everest from both sides of the mountain in the same season.
David Liano Gonzalez, 33, reached the top of Everest on May 11 from the south side, and days later started his second successful ascent of the world’s highest mountain from the north side.Gonzalez, who says he has now climbed Everest five times in total, was awarded the official record certificate from Guinness World Records at a ceremony in the Nepal capital on Thursday. Continue Reading→