The Centre has rescinded its decision to allow climbing and trekking on 14 Himalayan peaks in Sikkim in the wake of vociferous protests against the possible desecration of the mountaintops held sacred...

The Union home ministry has opened up 137 mountain peaks, including Kanchenjungha (8586m) — the third- highest in the world, for expeditions from the Sikkim side . The Sikkim government had banned e...

Adventure sports facilities are being set up on the premises of the Assam State Zoo and Botanical Garden on Sunday.The installation of the adventure sport facilities is the result of a memorandum of u...

Deaths have never dampened the desire to ‘conquer’ Everest. Not even the sight of bodies — removing the dead from the slopes is often not possible and many remain visible — seems to frighten c...

Four mountaineers from Bengal who recently scaled Sri Kailash (6,932m) in Uttarakhand are battling frostbite and are on the verge of losing their fingers and toes, a price several veteran climbers say...

Twenty one mountaineers have lost their lives this spring. The toll is much higher than that of previous years. Significantly, out of these 21 climbers, 12 were on an Everest expedition, four were cli...

The Covid-19 threat has put a question mark over a trek to be shepherded by Everester Premlata Agarwal next month.The pandemic has forced Premlata to keep her fingers crossed even though most of the s...

China has cancelled permits for Mount Everest because of the coronavirus, expedition organisers said Thursday, ahead of the spring climbing season on the world’s highest peak.Last year’s traffic-c...

The Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling has finalised its plan to conduct the institution’s first-ever climbathon in which 60 participants will climb three peaks within nine days.In cli...

Climbers of Tata Steel Adventure Foundation (TSAF), who donned Jharkhand jerseys, came up with excellent performances at the Open National Sports Climbing Championship that concluded here on Monday ev...