A foreign climber and his Sherpa guide were found dead inside a tent at the high camp on Mt Manaslu this morning after hundreds of climbers retreated to base camp following adverse weather on the world’s eighth-highest mountain, officials said.…
Ten young Nepalis are starving themselves on Manaslu, demanding their government and international community to protect Himalayan communities from glacial flooding the same week the country's prime minister flies to New York to make the same case to the world.
At 9:25 p.m. on September 17, nine exhausted climbers stood on the summit ridge of Manaslu, 8,163 meters up, in total darkness the first people to stand there this season. Below them, spread across Base Camp, 493 climbers were waiting…
Eighty-Two, and Still Climbing the Same Rock Today Reinhold Messner turns 82. He is not celebrating at home in South Tyrol. He is in Pakistan, in Gilgit-Baltistan, in the shadow of the mountain that has shaped and cost more of…
High above the Manaslu Base Camp, a group of young people from Samagaun are preparing to stop eating. Not because food is scarce but because they say the world has ignored the risks hanging over their village for too long.…
Manaslu, the world’s eighth-highest mountain at 8,163 meters, has become the undisputed center of Nepal’s autumn 2026 climbing season. As of the Department of Tourism’s royalty report covering September 11–13, 2026, the mountain holds 451 climbers, including 120 women, across…
There was a point, high on the ridge of Yerupajá, when going back stopped being an option. Three men stood on a knife-edge of snow and rock, the kind that drops away on both sides, with a storm sitting low…
Night on the southeast pillar. Three headlamps move against black rock and blacker sky, small as fireflies against 3,100 meters of ice, mixed ground, and granite. At 6,800 meters, there is no ledge to sleep on, so the climbers make…
How two young alpinists talked their way onto a Karakoram wall no one had touched since 1983 and climbed straight into the Piolets d'Or
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…
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