I once saw a man who was between 65 and 70 doing the trek barefoot with around 80kg of load walking through snow and water.” She explains that these private porters are paid per kilogram and ...

Your 50s are particularly special time to grow by exploring the world. “When I turned 50, I made a promise to myself: I was going to travel for me,” Tomiko Harvey, founder of Passports & Grub, told ...

Once a historic trading post where Tibetan sherpas bartered salt, wool, and livestock for rice, grains, and other essentials from the lower regions of Nepal ... 70 doing the trek barefoot with around ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing ... say the mountain is becoming increasingly dry and rocky with less snow or other precipitation, which experts say could be due to global warming ...

Conquering Mount Everest will cost climbers an extra $4,000 (£3,270) after Nepal hiked up fees for the ... increasingly dry and rocky with less snow or other precipitation, which experts say ...

As the rickety bus barely rounded another corner, an audible gasp went through the passengers. A recent blizzard had taken out the road between the high Himalayan villages of Ranipauwa and ...

The price to climb Mount Everest will soon increase for the first time in nearly a decade, as Nepal announces a sharp mark-up in permit fees. From September, those seeking to summit the world's ...