Remote mountainside villages in quake-ravaged Nepal are facing a wait of days before aid workers can assess their needs.

Auckland woman Alicia Scroggins, 21, was having the time of her life in Nepal, before disaster struck on Saturday.

A New Zealand guiding company's team have all been rescued by helicopter from the Western Cwm on Mt Everest, but 17 other people were stranded overnight.

Three phone companies have announced it will credit its New Zealand customers’ calls and texts to Nepal following the deadly earthquake.

Two New Zealand climbing groups have reported that they are safe in Nepal.

Acting Prime Minister Bill English told Parliament that New Zealand stood with the international community in readiness to help.

Aid organizations say that millions are being affected by the earthquake in Nepal.

Lucette Dillon says she will never be able to describe the “pure terror” she experienced in Kathmandu on Saturday, as the deadly 7.8 earthquake violently shook the house she was in.

The number of New Zealanders unaccounted for in Nepal is down to single figures, Foreign Minister Murray McCully says.

Hundreds of climbers remained trapped on Everest yesterday as rescue teams raced to mount an evacuation before supplies run out.

The first smoke of the funeral pyres was wafting over what remained of Nepal's magnificent Hindu temples.

Terrified Kiwi Everest trekker Elizabeth Farrington clung to a large rock for dear life as Saturday's avalanche roared over her.

A leading charity has warned it could be years before Nepal fully recovers from the deadly earthquake that ripped through the country on Saturday.

Three days after the deadly earthquake that claimed more than 3700 lives, several New Zealand families continue to wait for news of their loved ones.

A newlywed British couple ran for their lives and clung desperately to ice axes rammed into the ground to survive a terrifying wall of snow on Everest after the Nepal earthquake.

Raw footage shows the moment an avalanche caused by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal hits Base Camp on Mount Everest.

Hundreds of thousands of people spent a second night out of doors in Kathmandu last night as severe aftershocks continued to terrify people.

When Nichola Ireland saw TV news reports of the devastation in Nepal, she feared the worst.

The big earthquake that rocked Nepal was another violent by-product of an ancient, geological scrum between two giant land masses.

Kiwis in Nepal have spoken of yesterday's terrifying earthquake and say the country needs help urgently.

Kiwi hikers trekking down from Mount Everest base camp have described their panic when the devastating quake - which has killed at least 1800 people - hit.

The video was recorded by a security camera in Nepal where an earthquake of magnitude 7.9 on Richter scale took place on 25th of April 2015.

At least 718 feared dead as Nepalese earthquake leads to utter destruction. "Sherpas believe that a lot of people may have been buried in their tents."

A Canterbury postgraduate student is cycling through Australia, Asia and Europe on his way to a UN climate congress.

It may be the world's tallest mountain to climb, but now China has set itself an even greater Mt Everest challenge: attempting to bore a tunnel straight through it.

The climbers who each year attempt to follow in Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary's footsteps to the summit of Mount Everest are threatening to bring environmental disaster to the roof of the world.

Twenty-six years ago, Nicholas Jones' father tested his youthful stamina on the mountainsides of Nepal. Recently, he returned to the roof of the world with his sons to relive his trekking adventure.

Scores of walkers were still missing in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal yesterday, after a blizzard that is now known to have claimed the lives of more than 40 people.

A New Zealand couple whose whereabouts are unaccounted for in Nepal are not believed to be near the avalanche-stricken Annapurna circuit.