Tests have established a direct link between the Duke of Cambridge and a woman believed to have been at least half Indian

Sixty years after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the top of the world, anniversary celebrations took place in the shadow of a mountain they might now struggle to recognise.

Octogenarian reaches summit but 81-year-old Nepalese man is hot on his heels

Yuichiro Miura, 80, who has had heart surgery four times is already in the oxygen-deficient 'death zone'

A British climber who delivered a live video interview from the top of Mount Everest has found himself in trouble with the Nepalese authorities who have branded the broadcast illegal.

Mountaineering officials say 64 climbers, including a Saudi Arabian woman, have successfully scaled Mount Everest from Nepal's side of the mountain.

An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer has begun his attempt to scale Mount Everest, in an effort to reclaim his title as the oldest man to reach the summit.

A plane crashed while trying to land at a mountain airstrip in northern Nepal early Thursday, injuring all 21 people on board.

On 29 May 1953, the New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and the Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of the planet's highest mountain, described by Hillary as "a symmetrical beautiful snow cone".

Nigeria has been added to the Committee for the Protection of Journalists' annual list of most dangerous countries

Nepal's Mountaineering Department said a truce was reached at base camp

The team of three Europeans claim a misunderstanding between themselves and a group of Sherpas deteriorated into an ugly scene

A Nepalese man has set a world record for the longest broadcast by a television presenter after remaining on air for 62 hours and 12 minutes.

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