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Over 120 climbers have already secured permits to attempt to summit the world's highest peak – twice as many as at this time ...
Reading through the new issue of Trail (on sale April 10th) made me realise something. Which is that although many of us who ...
German mountaineer Jost Kobusch was on Mount Everest when an earthquake hit that killed more than 120 people and injured many others."At first I thought a serac [a large block of ice from a ...
American Marisa Eve Girawong has been confirmed as one of three Americans killed during the Nepal earthquake on Saturday. Girawong was climbing Mount Everest with Seattle-based Madison ...
The earthquake led to at least 34 deaths in northern India, as well as at least 10 deaths on Mount Everest in subsequent avalanches triggered by the quake, according to the newspaper. At least one ...
SHOCK videos show water gushing from a rooftop pool and a high-rise building collapse as a massive 7.7 magnitude earthquake ...
The resulting uplift of the Asian plate, plus the accumulation of material scraped off the Indian plate, is what created the Himalaya, including Mount Everest. This continental collision continues ...
Five years ago on 25 April, a devastating earthquake hit Nepal, which shook the whole country. More than 8,000 people were killed, and hundreds of thousands lost their homes. BBC journalist Aamir ...
Eyewitness accounts, incredible home-video and the latest scientific revelations tell the gripping tragedy of an earthquake that unleashed terror on Nepal and the ...
With shifting tectonic plates, Everest's height has always been a slow-moving target. Some had worried that the mountain actually shrank after a 2015 earthquake. Both countries sent surveyors ...
With rescue operations and global aid efforts underway in Myanmar and Thailand, here's a look back at some of the worst ...
The death toll continues to rise in the aftermath of the earthquake that hit Nepal on Saturday and passes 3200, with more than 6000 people injured. The avalanche that struck Everest base camp is said ...