More than 300 people have died attempting to reach the summit of Mount Everest, with countless more injured. Yet the dangers begin well before trekkers even reach base camp. The most common way hikers ...

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Tenzing-Hillary Airport, also known as Lukla Airport, is a small airport in the town of Lukla, in Khumbu, Solukhumbu District, Nepal. (Getty) Lukla Airport, known officially as Tenzing Hillary Airport ...

The death of three people in a plane crash in Nepal has shone a spotlight once again on the airport used by hikers to reach the foothills of Mount Everest, and often labelled the most dangerous in the ...

Flights to and from Tenzing Hillary Airport in Lukla have been obstructed for the past five days due to unfavourable weather conditions in the region. As a result, hundreds of tourists awaiting their ...

Scan the feedback section of travel sites: they are full of laments from frustrated trekkers stuck at Lukla’s Tenzing-Hillary Airport waiting days on end for flights out. After having descended from ...

KATHMANDU: A senior pilot and co-pilot were killed when an aircraft belonging to Summit (Goma) Air crashed while landing in foggy weather at tiny Lukla Airport in the Mt Everest region on Saturday ...

For half a century pilots have needed to navigate snow-capped peaks and endure erratic weather to land on a runway just 500 metres long that has been carved into a mountain ridge and sits by a ...