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Summits, records and the people of the Himalaya.
Breaking · Records & People
Rescuers located the bodies of three foreign climbers and two Nepali nationals on August 8, 2026 — nine months after an avalanche buried Yalung Ri's base camp on the closed Tibet border.
Records & People
In 1993, three sisters in Pokhara trained Nepal's first female trekking guides because none existed. More than 2,000 women later, four AFLW athletes just trekked Nepal with an all-female crew as women-only bookings jumped 32% in a year.
Records & People
High in the cliffs of Lamjung, Gurung hunters climb hand-woven rope ladders for the world's largest honeybee's harvest — a tradition now disappearing at an alarming rate.
Records & People
Stephane Champoussin finished the Great Himalayan Trail on August 1, becoming one of barely 130 people to ever cross Nepal end to end on foot, through Kanchenjunga, Makalu and the Manaslu Circuit.
Records & People
Nadhira Al Harthy failed her first mountain in 2015, then reached Everest's summit four years later. On July 30, 2026, an avalanche below Camp III on Pakistan's Broad Peak ended her climb toward the 8,000-metre club.
Records & People
Since the first recorded deaths in 1922, upward of 300 people have died attempting the world's highest mountain — and the physics of altitude means most of them never leave it.
Records & People
In 2011 a Nepali paraglider pilot launched from Everest's 8,848m summit in the highest free flight ever recorded — and today thousands of ordinary trekkers fly the very same Himalayan thermals from a hillside above Pokhara.
Records & People
GPS trackers finally proved how bar-headed geese cross the world's highest mountains twice a year, nonstop, at altitudes that would leave an unacclimatized human unconscious.
Records & People
The all-seeing eyes atop Nepal's Boudhanath Stupa are not decoration — every element, from the nose shaped like a Nepali numeral to the 13 gold tiers above, encodes a specific step toward enlightenment.
Records & People
In February 2025 Nepal's tourism department quietly redrew the map of the world's highest mountains, finding six new 8,000-metre summits hidden inside three already-famous massifs — but the body that keeps the official list still hasn't signed off.
Records & People
Inside the Annapurna forest above Ghorepani that turns crimson for ten weeks a year, and the narrow window when the low, mid and high bloom all line up at once.
Records & People
A retired psychologist from a small Utah desert town turned one Himalayan trek into Village Light — a nonprofit now supplying food, medicine and solar power to Manaslu-region villages a road will never reach.
Records & People
Nepal's trekking brochures have repeated the same superlative for decades. A local newspaper finally measured it — and found five lakes sitting higher, one of them in the same Nepali district.
Records & People
ZipFlyer Nepal at Sarangkot holds the official world record for the steepest and longest zip line on the planet — a 600-metre plunge off the same ridge where trekkers watch the sun rise over the Annapurna range.
Records & People
Seventy years after Joe Brown and George Band summited the world's third-highest mountain and stopped short of its final steps out of respect for local belief, we compare the remote Kanchenjunga Base Camp Trek against Everest and Annapurna on cost, permits, difficulty and crowds.
Records & People
DNA testing in 2026 confirmed the identity of 'Green Boots,' the frozen climber whose body marked the route to the summit for three decades. Here is the true story of the 1996 storm behind him, and the six Sherpas now being sent to bring him home.
Breaking · Records & People
The Karakoram avalanche that killed the record-breaking Nepali climber also killed five of his Nepali teammates in a single morning. Here is everything confirmed so far, and what it means for how you vet a Himalayan expedition.
Records & People
A new national census puts Nepal's tiger population at a record high, the fastest tiger recovery of any country on Earth — and it's reshaping what a Chitwan or Bardia safari actually looks like.
Records & People
On 3 June 1950, two Frenchmen became the first humans to stand on an 8,000-metre summit — three years before Everest. The descent nearly killed them both.
Records & People
Six metres below Everest's summit, geologists have found fossils of sea creatures that died 450 million years before Hillary and Tenzing were born — and the mountain is still rising to meet them.
Records & People
Joe Brown and George Band summited Kangchenjunga on a promise never to stand on its true top. A 2025 Indian Army climb from the Nepal side broke that unwritten rule again, and reignited a decades-old fight over whether the mountain should be climbed at all.
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