An Indian couple faked a Mount Everest ascent earlier this year by altering photographs to make it appear they were on the summit, according to Nepalese mountaineering authorities.

Eighty-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura has become the oldest man to reach the top of Mount Everest.

Three climbers returning from the summit of Mount Everest have died and two others are missing, a Nepalese official said today.