The Department of Tourism has issued a formal directive warning trekking agencies against advertising and selling overnight stay packages at Everest Base Camp expedition camps, citing serious violations of mountaineering regulations that have come to its attention during the ongoing Spring 2026 season.
A Czech-dominated international team has set its sights on two peaks in the Makalu massif this spring, with I.A.M. Treks and Expedition organising simultaneous permitted expeditions to Makalu I (8,463m) and the lesser-attempted Makalu II — also known as Kangchung Tse — at 7,678 metres.
Seventy years after two of the world's great 8,000-metre peaks were climbed for the first time, Nepal is preparing to mark the occasion with ceremonies that will take the celebrations back to the very communities that live in the shadow of those mountains.
The Department of Tourism has issued an official confirmation that the Khumbu Icefall route from Everest Base Camp to Camp II has been fully established, bringing to a close one of the most closely watched route-fixing episodes in recent Everest history and formally opening the 2026 summit season.
India's National Security Guard, the elite federal counter-terrorism force better known as the Black Cats, has flagged off its Mt. Everest Expedition 2026, with a 16-member team now in Kathmandu and set to fly to Lukla tomorrow before making their way to Everest Base Camp.
Death rates on Mt. Everest have fallen by half over the past two decades, driven by better weather forecasting, improved equipment, fixed rope systems, and stronger teamwork — but the mountain still claims nearly one in every 100 climbers who attempt it,
Nepal has issued climbing permits to 1,050 mountaineers across 125 teams for 29 peaks during the Spring 2026 season, collecting royalties of USD 7,840,671 — approximately Rs 1.16 billion — according to the Department of Tourism's royalty report covering March 1 to April 30, 2026.
Lakpa Sherpa, the man the mountaineering world knows simply as Makalu Lakpa, has done it again. At 5:00 am on Saturday, he stood on the summit of Mt. Makalu (8,485m) for the ninth time — extending his own world record for the most ascents of the fifth highest mountain on earth.