The Nepali and Chinese sides of the Everest region were closed to tourism on Wednesday due to unseasonally heavy snow, and a ...

Noel Hanna, a famed Irish mountaineer who had climbed Mount Everest 10 times, has died on the descent from the challenging Annapurna mountain range. Hanna, 56, died overnight in his camp in west Nepal ...

By Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) -Unseasonally heavy snow has prompted authorities in the Tibet side of Mount Everest to halt ...

An Indian climber who was rescued after spending three days trapped in a 980-foot-deep crevasse on Mount Annapurna, the world's 10th-highest mountain, was joined by his family at a hospital in Nepal ...

Annapurna is a dangerous and difficult climb, and the avalanche-prone Himalayan peak has a higher death rate than Everest - Copyright AFP/File PRAKASH MATHEMA ...

An Irish climber has died and an Indian is missing after falling into a crevasse in two separate incidents on Mount Annapurna, the world’s 10th highest mountain, an expedition organizer said Tuesday.

The spring climbing season in the Himalayas has endured a difficult start. The early season features Annapurna I, the 10th highest mountain in the world, standing 8,091 meters (26,545 feet) in the ...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A rescue helicopter plucked a Malaysian climber from Mount Annapurna in west Nepal on Friday, where he was stranded for two days after climbing the world’s tenth highest mountain ...

A Malaysian climber stranded in the open for two nights on one of the world's most treacherous mountains was rescued in Nepal Thursday, expedition organisers said. Climbing experts said it was a ...

POKHARA: Annapurna Ascent Day was marked in Pokhara on Wednesday amid a plethora of programmes organized specifically to celebrate the occasion. The day commemorates the first ascent of the ...

Nepal celebrated on Tuesday 75 years since the first ascent of Mount Annapurna, the 10th highest peak in the world, led by French climber Maurice Herzog. Herzog reached the 8,091-metre (26,545-foot) ...