
Visitor visas under Culturally Arranged Marriages will be processed during pandemic: INZ
Visitors under the category will be exempt from Covid-19 border restrictions.
Visitors under the category will be exempt from Covid-19 border restrictions.
OPINION: George Hillary recalls his grandfather's mission to stop a smallpox outbreak.
The remote Khumbu region was relatively untouched by Covid. Then climbers arrived.
Himalayan Trust calls on skiers, hikers and bikers to do some good for Nepal.
New York Times: Debate has emerged around mental illness in adventure sports.
Wanaka documentary maker Scott Simper caught Covid-19 while filming on Mt Everest.
New York Times: NZ man among those infected while climbing Everest. Officials deny claims.
Concern that highly infectious Delta variant doesn't respond to lab-produced antibodies.
"The Tongariro Alpine Crossing is a completely different experience during the winter."
Opinion: Chairman of the Himalayan Trust shares a letter ahead of Everest Day on May 29.
408 foreign climbers were issued permits to climb Everest. Many have contracted the virus.
Nepalese mountaineering officials have denied there are any active cases this season.
New York Times: 44 people claim they've reached all highest peaks. But maybe no one has.
First woman to climb Everest without oxygen says Nepal needs help.
Several climbers have reported testing positive for Covid after returning from base camp.
As in Delhi and Mumbai, Kathmandu's residents are dying at home and outside hospitals.
New Zealand's Everest tour operators scrap 2021 expeditions.
One reached the summit, the other succumbed to exhaustion before getting there.
Kami Rita and 11 other Sherpas were fixing ropes ready for this year's influx of climbers.
This season saw Everest's first case of Covid. Also, a record number of climbers.
The Serpent diplomat: 'I'd seen people dead before but... not in that manner.'
New York Times: When is it safe to switch your surgical mask for an oxygen mask?
300 climbers are on their way to base camp, despite the pandemic.
New York Times: Pandemic worsened economic distress and factors that lead to such unions.
"He was crying profusely for failing to reach the summit."
They show a snapshot in time at the small medical centre, before Nepal's borders closed.
Surveyors lost toes to frostbite in the hard fought international survey.
France, Russia, Nepal and a handful of US states are behind the massive spike in cases.
It's two days' hike from the nearest airport, with no roads to speak of.
There are now 22 active cases in New Zealand.