A team of eight Sherpa climbers left Namche Bazaar yesterday for Everest Base Camp. Soon, they will begin creating a path ...

The Khumbu Icefall, a frozen river that moves four feet a day, flows at the foot of Mt. Everest and must be navigated to ...

K Expeditions will fix the ropes from Camp 2 to the summit of Everest. Owner Lakpa Sherpa spoke to ExplorersWeb about the ...

With the start of main climbing season, an eight-member team of icefall doctors today left for the Mt Everest base camp from ...

The Khumbu region witnessed heavy snowfall in the last week of February, following an unusually dry winter season that lasted ...

Farmers in the Everest region no longer produce traditionally grown crops like wheat, barley, and millet as they once did.

After witnessing an unusually early collapse of a section of the famous Khumbu Icefall in 2007, Dawa Steven Sherpa has dedicated himself to raising awareness about the impacts of climate change in the ...

"For a foreigner, a Sherpa means someone who carries loads ... About 3,000 of Nepal's more than 10,000 Sherpas reside in the Khumbu valley, the gateway to the southern side of Mount Everest.

Kanchi Sherpa does not feel that the summers are ... undertook a household survey 4 in the highly vulnerable Khumbu region closer to the glacial lakes, upward of Namche in the eastern Himalaya.

Mingma Tshering Sherpa, Chairperson of Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality, reiterated the local level's opposition to unregulated commercial flights. "We conveyed the message that commercial ...