An 85-year-old Nepali who was attempting to scale Mount Everest to regain his title as the oldest person to climb the world's highest peak has died.

Dozens of stranded foreign trekkers have been rescued and more bodies have been found following a blizzard and avalanches in northern Nepal, taking the death toll to 27.

Search and rescue teams have found the bodies of eight more trekkers killed in a series of blizzards and avalanches in central Nepal in recent days, raising the death toll to 25.

A group of Japanese mountaineers claim to have photographed footprints of the legendary Yeti that they believe could prove the long-rumoured existence of a giant ape living in the Himalayan peaks.