Celebrated British mountaineer Kenton Cool has scaled Mount Everest for the 20th time, breaking his own record for the most summits of the world’s highest peak by any foreign climber.
A British deaf climber who faced difficulties in the death zone on Mt Everest while descending from the summit has been rescued safely to South Col, said an expedition organiser.
The Himalayan Rescue Association (HRA) clinic at Everest Base Camp is offering frostbite treatment on-site this spring season, including the first dose of ilioprost — a vascular medication typically administered in Kathmandu — for climbers presenting with frostbite at Camp I or higher, according to Dr Prince Singh of Everest ER at HRA.
The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) All Women Expedition 2026 has successfully summited Mount Everest, achieving a 100 percent success rate, expedition organisers said on Thursday.
Ikeda Chikao, a Japanese climber with no prior mountaineering experience, successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 20, 2026, at exactly 9:15 am Nepal Time, turning what began as a Base Camp trek into an extraordinary accomplishment in less than a year.
Mike Harker, Public Affairs Chief at the US Embassy Nepal, successfully summited Mount Everest on May 20 at 9:10 AM, becoming the first serving American Foreign Service Officer to scale the world's highest peak.
Solukhumbu mountaineer Fur Diki Sherpa has reached the summit of Mount Lhotse (8,516m) as part of a 24-hour speed-record attempt on the world's fourth-highest peak, with the climber now descending to lower camps.
Nepal's first mountaineer-parliamentarian, Mingma David Sherpa, is pushing for the summit of Mount Everest, a climb that could make him the first elected lawmaker in history to stand atop the world's highest peak.