5 climbers feared dead on world's 3rd highest peak
Five climbers including two Hungarians and a South Korean are missing on the world's third-highest mountain and feared dead, a mountaineering official ...

Japanese man, 80, oldest to top Everest _ for now
An 80-year-old Japanese man who began the year with his fourth heart operation became the oldest conqueror of Mount Everest on Thursday, a feat he ...

Japanese climber, 80, becomes oldest atop Everest
An 80-year-old Japanese man who has had four heart operations in recent years became the oldest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest on ...

Nepal plane crash injures 21, including 8 Japanese
A plane crashed while trying to land at a mountain airstrip in northern Nepal early Thursday, and all 21 people on board, including eight Japanese ...
Truce reached among fighting climbers on Everest
A truce has been reached between three foreign climbers and Nepalese Sherpa guides who were involved in a fistfight on Mount Everest, officials said ...

Everest mountaineer George Lowe dies at 89
George Lowe, the last surviving climber from the team that made the first successful ascent of Mount Everest, has died at age 89. Mary Lowe said ...

Top Nepal judge becomes head of interim government
Nepal's chief judge was named head of an interim government in an attempt by the Himalayan country's main political parties to cure the paralysis and ...

ADB: In Asia, wealth buys access to clean water
Ninety-one percent of people living in Asia have improved access to clean water, a remarkable achievement over the last two decades in the world's ...

Nepal's answer to deadlock: making chief judge PM
Nepal's quiet, barely known chief justice is on the verge of taking almost total control of the Himalayan nation, becoming the interim head of ...

Nepal's women climbers break highest glass ceiling
It's the world's highest glass ceiling. Of the 3,755 climbers who have scaled Mount Everest, more than half are Nepalese but only 21 of those locals ...

2 Everest climbs put Nepalese woman in record book
Nepalese mountaineer Chhurim entered the record book by scaling Mount Everest twice in the same climbing season. In fact, she did so a week apart.

Tibetan protester sets himself on fire in Nepal
A Tibetan protester doused himself with gasoline, set himself ablaze and chanted anti-China slogans as he ran down a street in Nepal's capital ...
Nepali colonel in UK court on torture charges
A colonel in Nepal's army will stand trial in Britain in June on charges of torture allegedly committed during the Himalayan nation's civil war. Col.
Police official says 30 die in Nepal bus accident
A police official says a bus veered off a mountain road in west Nepal leaving at least 30 people dead and several more injured. Police official Ramesh ...

Indian park battles poachers targeting rhino horn
Out of the early morning mists and tall grass of northeast India emerges a massive creature with a dinosaur-like face, having survived millions of ...
Nepali charged with torture appears in UK court
A British court on Saturday denied bail to a colonel in the Nepalese army facing charges of torture allegedly committed during the Himalayan nation's ...
UK police charge Nepalese man with torture
British police said Friday they have charged a serving colonel in the Nepalese army with two counts of torture allegedly committed during the ...
Nepali man arrested in UK over torture allegations
British police say that they have arrested a Nepali man on suspicion of torture allegedly committed during the Himalayan nation's bloody civil war.