A Sherpa climber has been left to die near Camp III, just below the South Col, as Nepal closes its spring climbing season on Mt. Everest, it has been revealed.
The US Nepal Climbers Association (USNCA) has formally launched a social security protection campaign for Nepal's tourism workers, calling on the government to establish a comprehensive welfare programme covering mountain guides, trekking guides, Nepal Mountain Leaders, high-altitude workers, and porters - along with their families.
A Ukrainian couple has set a new record in mountain climbing, becoming the first Ukrainian couple to scale the world’s fifth-highest mountain this spring season.
Dawa Sherpa, the Sherpa guide who survived seven days alone on Mount Everest without food or bottled oxygen, is in the intensive care unit at HAMS Hospital in Kathmandu, where doctors say his condition remains stable and his dehydration is showing significant improvement.
Record-holding Nepali-British climber Nirmal ‘Nims’ Purja scaled Mount Makalu without using supplemental oxygen, completing his 56th ascent of mountains above 8,000m—and his 28th without using O₂.
The Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) has called on the government to establish an independent investigation committee into the circumstances that left Sherpa guide Dawa Sherpa alone in Everest's death zone for seven days, while also visiting him at HAMS Hospital where he remains in the ICU in stable condition.
The BBC has broadcast a video interview of Dawa Sherpa, the Sherpa guide who survived seven days alone in Everest's death zone, filmed inside the intensive care unit of HAMS Hospital in Kathmandu without the knowledge or consent of his family or hospital authorities, drawing sharp condemnation from his wife and raising serious questions about the broadcaster's adherence to its own editorial standards.
The Nepal National Mountain Guide Association (NNMGA) has commenced the second component of its IFMGA-accredited Aspirant Guide Course (AGC) 2025/26, marking another step in Nepal's effort to produce internationally certified mountain guiding professionals.