Nirmal Purja was leading an expedition on Broad Peak in Pakistan when the avalanche killed him and nine other climbers, ...

Nine months after a fatal avalanche in the Himalayas, five bodies have been found. Nepalese authorities have not ruled out the possibility that these are the bodies of five mountaineers, including a ...

Rescue efforts are underway to find a group of missing climbers including world-renowned mountaineer Nirmal Purja following ...

Nirmal Purja's iconic Everest 'traffic jam' image foreshadowed a growing Himalayan crisis of overcrowding, environmental ...

Search-and-rescue operations intensified on Friday for renowned Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja "Nimsdai" and nine other ...

Mountaineering icon Nirmal Purja was killed in an avalanche on Pakistan's Broad Peak. His death adds to a long history of fatal avalanche disasters that continue to challenge even the world's most ...

Experts say the impact of climate change is clearly visible in the Western Himalayas, which is bearing the brunt of the ...

The findings of a new paper show governance and preparedness rather than hazard magnitude determine whether avalanches become mass-casualty events. With large ice-rock avalanches growing in frequency ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A stock photo of the summit of Mount Makalu in Nepal Shelley Johannesen, 53, was killed on Monday, May 11, as she descended from ...

The death of mountaineer Nirmal Purja has renewed global attention on avalanches. Here's how avalanches form, why they happen ...

Nirmal Purja, 43, died in an avalanche in Pakistan as he was on his latest expedition, a climb to Broad Peak in the Karakoram range of the Himalayas.

An American climber has died in an avalanche on Mount Makalu, officials said Tuesday, as fatalities mount early in Nepal's busy spring climbing season. Shelley Johannesen, 53, was killed on Monday ...