The land here is mostly made up of sand, salt, and massive rock formations. There are also salt flats and dried-up lakes.

Archaeologists have located Tharais, a lost Byzantine city featured on the 6th-century Madaba Mosaic Map in Jordan. The ...

In 2012, she became the first woman to summit two 8,000-meter peaks, Mount Everest and Lhotse, in a single 24 ... somewhere remote and off the map compared to the crowded routes up Mount Everest.

It would come as news to everyone outside Nepal (and within as well) that the highest peak in the world has no name other ...

Kami Rita, a veteran Nepali Sherpa guide, has climbed other peaks that are among the world's highest, including K2, Cho Oyu, Manaslu and Lhotse. A veteran Sherpa guide has scaled Mount Everest for ...

KATHMANDU - An Indian climber and another from Romania died on Nepal’s Mount Lhotse, the world’s fourth-tallest peak, hiking officials said on May 19, taking the season’s death toll to at ...

Rakesh Kumar, a 39-year-old climber from India, died on Sunday while descending from the summit of Lhotse, which stands at 8,516m (27,940ft), according to Makalu Adventure, the expedition organiser.

An Indian and a Romanian climber died on Mount Lhotse in Nepal, one of the world’s highest mountains, taking the total number of fatalities during this year’s spring climbing season in the ...

An Indian and a Romanian climber died on Mount Lhotse in Nepal, one of the world’s highest mountains, taking the total number of fatalities during this year’s spring climbing season in the Himalayas ...