The recovery team launches a second attempt to retrieve the body of Phurba Ongel and find Abofazl Gozali of Iran in what ...

Conflicting stories have made what happened last week on Makalu, in which two climbers died, hard to piece together. Here is what we know.

Search and recovery operations on Mt Makalu have been officially called off after extreme weather conditions and treacherous ...

Sanu Sherpa of Nepal and Abofazl Gozali of Iran reached the summit of Makalu today. Two more Sherpas topped out a little later.

Four people reportedly reached the summit of Makalu on January 15 between 8:30 am and 10:30 am: expedition leader Sanu Sherpa, his younger brother Phurba Ongel Sherpa, Lakpa Rinji Sherpa, and client ...

Sherpa rescuers are not expected to help solely out of the goodness of their hearts. They are professionals and are usually ...

On Sunday, May 4, American climber Alex Pancoe died on the slopes of Nepal’s 27,838-foot Makalu, the world’s fifth-highest mountain. Pancoe was completing an acclimatization hike in preparation for a ...

Search and rescue teams are scouring Mount Makalu's upper slopes for an Iranian mountaineer who vanished during descent, while a Sherpa climber's body has been located at 7,500 meters following ...

Asharq Al Awsat Bad weather forced Nepali rescuers to suspend the search Monday for an Iranian climber missing for four days after an accident which killed a Nepali team member, expedition organizers ...