In an effort end generations of controversy, the authorities in Nepal will try to ascertain the precise height of the world's biggest mountain.

Sherpa mountaineer Nawang Gombu, the youngest member of the climbing team that first scaled Mount Everest, has died.

No roads, no phones, no power. But that doesn't get in the way of two Auckland ad men who are bringing schools to Southeast Asia's poorest kids - by motorbike. Kirsten Warner meets them.

Following in the steps of Sir Edmund Hillary on world's highest mountain will benefit charity for children

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and actor Leonardo DiCaprio are an unlikely pairing of figureheads in the fight to save the tiger.

Mark Inglis tells of the charity which sees him taking Kiwis to the Himalaya.

Social entrepreneurs have plenty of lessons to offer more conventional managers.

At least 28 rhinos, an endangered species, have died in the past year.

A campaign is underway to try and prove a British climber beat Sir Edmund Hillary to the summit of Mt Everest.

Climbing the world's tallest peak has gone from rugged challenge to booming tourist attraction. Sir Edmund Hillary would turn in his grave.

A leading British paper claims the UN has made a sizeable blunder over key evidence on global warming.

Three days' hard labour may not sound like much of a holiday. But for Jenifer Dagg it was the highlight of a trip to Nepal.

Protests over scheme offering financial incentives for men to marry widows.