KATHMANDU, Nepal—A Sherpa guide scaled Mount Everest on Sunday for the 26th time, matching the record set by a fellow Nepalese guide for the most ascents of the world’s highest peak. Pasang Dawa Sherpa reached the summit on Sunday morning along with a Hungarian climber, according to expedition organizer Imagine Nepal Treks. The season’s first…

SEATTLE—A retired Seattle doctor died while climbing Mount Everest on Monday, according to University of Washington officials. University officials said on Twitter Tuesday that Dr. Jonathan Sugarman died Monday on the mountain. He was climbing the mountain as part of an expedition arranged by Washington state-based International Mountain Guides. Company officials said on their website…

A local Zhongba motorcycle repairman comes to the Pyle brothers’ rescue, managing to get the BMW bike clutch back in working order. But further disaster strikes when Colin’s bike blows a tire. The journey is now in real jeopardy. …

Two rare wild cats have been discovered in one of the world’s most remote environments: Mount Everest. Perhaps they just wanted to get as far away as possible from everyone, for a pair of Pallas’s cats—the original “Grumpy Cat”—have been found living in Nepal’s Sagarmatha National Park, in the Everest region. As reported in the…

Remember the previous stories of the Father and Son who summited Mount Everest and Mount Denali in May and June? Father Tsang Chi-shing (John), who has successfully climbed Mount Everest four times, traveled to the UK for an iconic cycling challenge-Ride Across Britain (RAB), an event of road cycling within nine days, starting from southwest…

Hongkonger Celia Cheng Kwok-yan is a photographer and writer who has left her footprints on the World’s Three Poles (the North Pole, the South Pole, and the summit of Mount Everest) and on the seven continents. After a two-year hiatus due to the never-ending pandemic, Cheng finally picked up her backpack again in April and…

An 18-year-old Hong Kong youth Bob Tsang Long-kit has climbed the six tallest peaks on seven continents. He completed Mt. Denali, the highest peak in North America at 6,190 metres (20,310 feet)) on June 12 2022. “Compared with other peaks, climbing Mt. Denali is the most exciting and most harsh, and it is also the…

This year, a senior couple from Hong Kong attempted to scale Mount Everest, one of the world’s toughest climbs. With the summit only 100 meters from reach, the couple made the most difficult decision of their life—return. Wong Yim Leung, 69, and Ho Suk Chu, or Stella, 65, are both mountaineering coaches in Hong Kong….

Hong Kong mountain climbers Tsang Chi-shing (John) and his son Tsang Long-kit (Bob) successfully climbed the 8,849-meter-high (29,032.15 feet) Mount Everest, and were the first father-son pair from Hong Kong to successfully reach the world’s highest peak. This was the fourth time John climbed Everest, and Bob, at 18, set a record as the youngest…

KATHMANDU—Russian climber Pavel Kostrikin died at Camp I of Mount Everest, the first reported death of a foreigner on the world’s highest peak in the current climbing season that began in March, a Nepali official said on Sunday. Kostrikin, 55, died at the camp, which is located at an altitude of around 5,360 metres (17,585…