A wall of snow, ice and rock broke loose on Mount Mizhirgi on Sunday afternoon and slammed into a camp where dozens of climbers were training in Russia’s North Caucasus. Eleven of them are dead. Six are still missing. Six…
At 6,900 meters on the east ridge of Jannu, there is no flat ground. There are no fixed ropes above, and there is no rescue team waiting below. Two men are digging out a ledge barely wide enough to sit…
When the August 26 flood tore through the Trishuli 3A hydropower project, Sanjay Sah sent everyone else out of the control room and stayed behind. Ten days later, a joint Nepal Army–Armed Police Force team pulled him and colleague Kabir…
The flood did not only sweep away roads, bridges and homes in northern Nepal. It separated people from the outside world. Foreign tourists were in the affected region. So were the Nepali guides, porters and support workers who travelled with…
Priya Adhikari, Nepal's first female helicopter captain, flew roughly 100 rescue missions in six days over the flooded Bhote Koshi valley — and a career in the Himalayas had already taught her everything she needed for it.
Eleven years after an earthquake sent a mountainside down onto a Himalayan village in seconds, the survivors' story is one of both catastrophe and return and a reminder that the same peak still watches over new communities in its shadow.
What we know so far, as of August 27 A massive flash flood and debris flow started near the Nepal-China border, in the Tibet/Gyirong area. It was linked to a rock and ice avalanche, or a landslide, that temporarily blocked…
Days before his death, Nirmal Purja wrote directly to the mountain he was preparing to climb: On 30 July 2026, an avalanche swept through his expedition on Broad Peak in Pakistan. Nims and the other members of the team lost…
How a farm boy from southern Poland closed a 13-year project by skiing the Killer Mountain, top to bottom, without oxygen and without stopping
Manaslu turns 70 this year. In the seven decades since the world’s eighth-highest peak was first climbed, 3,643 people have stood on its summit. This autumn climbing season alone is expected to add more than 300 new summiteers to the…
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