On Wednesday, China’s leading drone maker DJI announced it has conducted a high-altitude transportation test with drones on the southern slope of Mount Everest, marking the first time that a civilian ...

AP’s team in Kathmandu typically relies on third-party visuals to cover the annual influx of climbers attempting to summit Mount Everest. But this year, photographer Niranjan Shrestha had a new idea: ...

A recent survey found that just since the 1990s, the highest glacier on Mount Everest has lost 2,000 years of ice. At the same time, the mountain has gotten more crowded.