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Nepal announces a hike in climbing fee for 8,000ers

Nepal has raised the climbing permit fee for all its 8,000ers by 36-40 percent. As a result, the new permit fee for climbing Mount Everest during the spring season has increased to $15,000 up from $11,000 per person.

Community participation to protect the rare elongated tortoise

Nepal has an opportunity to use community-driven conservation to protect the critically endangered elongated tortoise, which can be key to saving this species from extinction.

Adriana Brownlee becomes youngest female climber to complete 14 peaks

French climber Alasdair Scot Mckenzie, 20, Pakistani Shehroze Kashif, 22, and British Adriana Brownlee, 23, are the youngest of the batch of 13 climbers who completed 14-peak challenge on Wednesday.

Dawa Yangzum Sherpa becomes first Nepali woman to complete all 14 peaks

Dawa Yangzum Sherpa, who scaled Everest at the age of 21, became the first woman to become the IFMGA certified guide, and now the first Nepali female climber to complete all 14 peaks.

French climber dies on Makalu

Sixty-year-old French climber Johnny Saliba died on Mount Makalu above 8,000m due to altitude sickness 

Sherpa dies descending Makalu in spring’s 1st 8000er death

The death came just hours after Seven Summit Treks shared on social media that he was among the twelve people to summit Makalu, the fifth highest peak in the world.

Nimsdai scales Makalu as his 45th summits of eight-thousander

Nirmal Purja holds multiple records of big mountains and continues to make new ones as he himself leads expeditions of 8,000m peaks.  

Pakistani woman makes a historic ascent of Mount Makalu

Naila Kiani has become the first Pakistani woman to summit Mount Makalu as her 11th peak above 8,000m.

Nepali teenager summits Makalu as his 12th eight-thousander

Nima Rinji Sherpa, who summited Makalu (8,485m) on Saturday morning, is inching closer to his mission to scale all 14 peaks above 8000m.

Makalu records season’s first summit

Eight climbers from Seven Summit Treks led by Lakpa Sherpa reached the summit of Makalu (8485 m) on Thursday.

Makalu records season’s first summit

Eight members of the rope fixing team and Norwegian climber Kristin Harila from Seven Summit Treks and three members of Imagine Nepal reached the summit of Makalu on Saturday morning.

Shehroze Kashif sets world record; becomes the youngest to climb top five 8,000-meter peaks

This season, Kashif summited Mount Kanchenjunga (8,586m), third highest peak, Mount Lhotse (8,516m), fourth highest peak and Mount Makalu (8,485m), fifth highest peak.
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Nepal announces a hike in climbing fee for 8,000ers

Nepal has raised the climbing permit fee for all its 8,000ers by 36-40 percent. As a result, the new permit fee for climbing Mount Everest during the spring season has increased to $15,000 up from $11,000 per person.

Community participation to protect the rare elongated tortoise

Nepal has an opportunity to use community-driven conservation to protect the critically endangered elongated tortoise, which can be key to saving this species from extinction.

Adriana Brownlee becomes youngest female climber to complete 14 peaks

French climber Alasdair Scot Mckenzie, 20, Pakistani Shehroze Kashif, 22, and British Adriana Brownlee, 23, are the youngest of the batch of 13 climbers who completed 14-peak challenge on Wednesday.