An eight-member team from 8K Expeditions successfully summited Mt. Makalu (8,485m) on Sunday morning, adding to what is shaping up as one of the busiest seasons on the world's fifth highest peak.
A three-member team from the Korean Alpine Federation has made history on Sat Peak (6,220m), completing the first-ever recorded ascent of the unclimbed peak in Nepal's Kanchenjunga region on Friday afternoon — planting a flag on a summit no human had stood on before.
The Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) has successfully recovered an unidentified climber's body from the Khumbu Icefall section of the Everest climbing route and transported it to Kathmandu for forensic identification, in a multi-agency operation concluded on May 2, 2026.
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.