Record-holding mountaineer Nima Rinji Sherpa has joined Christel House Nepal as a founding board member as the Indianapolis-based global nonprofit and school network plans to build a school in Kathmandu.
Pemba Sherpa, a director at 8K Expeditions and one of five new private-sector members appointed to the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB), spoke about his early priorities for the board in his first remarks since taking office.
"Tenzing," a narrative feature about Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay's historic 1953 summit of Mount Everest, has been selected to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in a gala presentation.
The 7 Summit Foundation has announced it will formally open Buddha View Park, which is being constructed near Pikey Peak in Solukhumbu district, by the end of October to attract domestic and international tourists to the region.
The Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) has suspended the second summer phase of its Professional Mountain Guide (PMG) Training 2026 until further notice, following weeks of mounting criticism from Nepal's mountaineering community over the programme's design, approval process and departure from the country's long-established guide training system.
Record-holding mountaineer Lakpa Sherpa, popularly known as Makalu Lakpa, scaled Gasherbrum II in Pakistan this morning, completing his ninth peak above 8,000m.
A Seven Summit Treks expedition team reached the summit of Gasherbrum II (8,035m) in Pakistan on July 30, the mountaineering operator announced, with the ascent also marking the completion of all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks for the team's senior guide, Lhakpa Temba Sherpa.
A search mission has been mobilized in Pakistan after at least 10 climbers went missing in a massive avalanche that struck Broad Peak on Thursday. At least two bodies were recovered by the search team, officials said.
The Expedition Operators' Association Nepal (EOAN) has formally urged the Nepal government to initiate urgent diplomatic engagement with Pakistani authorities to support search-and-rescue operations for climbers missing after Thursday's avalanche on Broad Peak, including record-holding mountaineer Nirmal Purja "Nimsdai."