Twelve people, including foreign trekkers, have died after an avalanche and blizzard conditions in Nepal’s mountainous north, officials have said.

There is no chance of finding any of the more than 150 people who are believed to have been buried by a massive landslide in northern Nepal, an official said yesterday, as rescuers struggled to dig through piles of rock, mud, and trees.

An American climber said he fell into a crevasse on a Himalayan mountain in Nepal but managed to crawl to his tent despite broken ribs and an arm before being rescued the next morning. And he taped the whole thing.

The recent tragedy on Mount Everest has sparked an avalanche of bitter accusations among local Sherpas, Western climbers and others with stakes in the world’s highest mountain, writes John Hearne.

Buddhist monks cremated the remains of Sherpa guides who were buried in the deadliest avalanche to hit Mount Everest, a disaster that has prompted calls for a climbing boycott by Nepal’s ethnic Sherpa community.

Search teams have recovered a 13th body from the snow and ice covering a dangerous climbing pass on Mount Everest, a day after an avalanche swept over a group of Sherpa guides in the deadliest disaster on the world’s highest peak.

Rescuers were digging through piles of snow and ice today for four Sherpa guides buried on Mount Everest when an avalanche swept down the slopes and killed 12 other Nepalese guides in the deadliest disaster on the world’s highest peak.

The Nepalese government has banned the sale and transport of chicken and all poultry products in the capital city to prevent the spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus.

A truce has been agreed between three foreign climbers and Nepalese Sherpa guides who were involved in a fight on Everest.

A bus has veered off a mountain road and plunged into a river in western Nepal, killing at least 13 people and leaving 19 others critically injured.

A plane carrying trekkers to the Mount Everest region hit a bird and crashed just after take-off in Nepal’s capital, killing the 19 Nepali, British, and Chinese people on board.

Nineteen people, including seven Britons, were killed when a plane carrying trekkers to the Everest region crashed just after take-off in Nepal’s capital today.

An avalanche hit climbers on a high Himalayan peak in Nepal yesterday, leaving at least nine dead and six others missing, officials said.

A bus drove off a rural road in Nepal's mountainous west, killing at least 10 people and injuring 25 others.

Landslides in Nepal have killed at least eight people and two more are missing after heavy monsoon rains hit the area.

Police in Nepal have briefly detained dozens of people at the start of a crackdown on smoking in public places.

At least 10 people were killed and another six injured when a passenger van crashed off a mountain road in north-western Nepal today, a police official said.

Nepal sank into political turmoil after politicians failed to agree on a new constitution, leaving the country with no legal government.

A plane has crashed into a mountain in the Himalayas while trying to land at an airport in northern Nepal, killing 15 people and critically injuring six.

At least nine people died when a plane carrying 21 people crashed while trying to land at a mountain airstrip in Nepal’s northern Himalayas today.

Police said the death toll has reached 17 from weekend flash flooding in western Nepal. Another 47 people are missing and presumed dead.

Students in Nepal have shut down the capital with a general strike to protest against price increases for petrol, diesel and cooking fuel.

A crowded bus has veered off a mountain highway and into a river in eastern Nepal, killing at least 35 people and leaving many more missing, police said.

A PLANE carrying tourists to view Mount Everest crashed while attempting to land in Nepal yesterday, killing all 19 people on board, including 13 foreigners, officials said.

A plane carrying tourists to view Mount Everest crashed while attempting to land in Nepal today, killing all 19 people on board.

Thousands of homeless villagers in the Himalayas spent a miserable night outdoors in heavy rains after a powerful earthquake flattened houses and rescuers struggled to reach victims in the mountains of India, Nepal and Tibet.

Rescue workers used shovels and their bare hands to pull bodies from the debris of collapsed buildings today, as the death toll from an earthquake which hit north-east India, Nepal and Tibet rose to 50.

A strong earthquake shook north-eastern India and Nepal tonight, killing at least 16 people, damaging buildings and sending MPs in Nepal’s capital running into the streets.

AT least 20 people are missing after an overcrowded boat they were travelling in capsized in a rain-swollen river in southern Nepal.

Landslides triggered by monsoon rains buried parts of two remote mountainous villages in Nepal today, killing six people, with 10 others believed to be buried in the debris.

THE body of a Japanese climber who died while climbing Mount Everest has arrived in the Nepalese capital.

All 22 people on a small plane died when it crashed in Nepal’s mountainous east, searchers said today after finding the wreckage of the plane that went missing a day earlier.

Nepal's former crown prince was arrested today for firing a gun into the air after an argument in a restaurant.

AN Irish aid worker has played a leading role in freeing almost 2,000 girls kept in bonded labour, a form of slavery still widely practiced in parts of Nepal.

All 14 people on board a small passenger plane which crashed while flying to the Mount Everest region of Nepal were confirmed dead today.

A SMALL passenger plane heading to the Mount Everest region crashed in heavy rain yesterday outside Nepal’s capital, killing all 14 people aboard, including four Americans, a Briton and a Japanese national, officials said.

A small passenger plane carrying 14 people, including some foreigners, to the Mount Everest region crashed into the hills outside Nepal’s capital in heavy rain today, officials said.

The Dalai Lama celebrated his 75th birthday today with hundreds of cheering followers in Dharmsala, northern India, which has been his home since he fled Tibet after a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule.

Markets reopened for business, vehicles returned to the streets and some banks allowed customers to withdraw cash in Nepal today after the former communist rebels ended their debilitating six-day general strike.

MAOIST opposition supporters enforced a general strike that closed transportation, schools and markets across Nepal yesterday demanding the prime minister resign.

At the age of 13, Jordan Romero is heading to Mount Everest in an attempt to become the youngest person to scale the world’s highest mountain – and complete his goal of climbing the highest peaks on all seven continents.

A record-breaking Nepalese Sherpa flew to Mount Everest today to prepare to scale the world’s highest mountain once again and scatter the ashes of its most celebrated climber, Edmund Hillary.

A 22-inch tall man has left his home country of Nepal in a quest to be recognised as the world’s shortest man.

Officials say at least 12 people have been killed in western Nepal after a landslide hit a remote mountain village.