Ang Tshering Sherpa

Her back hunched over, Nepali villager Sanchimaya Thami strained to make the last stretch of a five-hour trek to deliver critical relief supplies to other victims of April's devastating earthquake.

Bad weather frustrated efforts to rescue hundreds of climbers stranded on Mount Everest today, a day after an earthquake in Nepal triggered an avalanche in possibly the single deadliest incident on the world's highest peak.

Nepal will open five new peaks of over 8,000 metres to expeditions when the autumn climbing season begins, taking the total number of such mountains to 13.

A veteran Mexican climber was confirmed today as the first person to climb Mount Everest from both sides of the mountain in the same season.

Her back hunched over, Nepali villager Sanchimaya Thami strained to make the last stretch of a five-hour trek to deliver critical relief supplies to other victims of April's devastating earthquake.

Bad weather frustrated efforts to rescue hundreds of climbers stranded on Mount Everest today, a day after an earthquake in Nepal triggered an avalanche in possibly the single deadliest incident on the world's highest peak.

Nepal will open five new peaks of over 8,000 metres to expeditions when the autumn climbing season begins, taking the total number of such mountains to 13.

A veteran Mexican climber was confirmed today as the first person to climb Mount Everest from both sides of the mountain in the same season.