Our helicopter took off at sunrise around 6:20 AM from Kathmandu Airport, heading to Lukla, the gateway to Mount Everest. The flight to Lukla takes 25 minutes by fixed-wing airplane or 40 minutes by ...

The Nepali and Chinese sides of the Everest region were closed to tourism on Wednesday due to unseasonably heavy snow, and a helicopter crashed in deep snowdrifts as it tried to rescue stranded ...

A death-defying Shropshire man has just returned from an expedition to the Himalayas where he has been skydiving over Mount ...

A private helicopter on its way to Lobuche near the Everest Base Camp to rescue stranded trekkers crashed on Wednesday (29 October), Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal spokesperson Gyanendra Bhul said.