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 ...

It’s not quite a highway to heaven, but it’s as high as any traveller will be able to drive when Nepal constructs the first hard-surface road leading to Lukla, the gateway to Mount Everest. The ...

Rumor on the trail that the Lukla airport had shut down started a week ago. We were still making our push to Everest Base Camp (17,701 feet) and Kala Patthar (18,315 feet). The weather was starting to ...

Image: Lukla is a small town in the Khumbu Pasanglhamu rural municipality of the Solukhumbu District. (David Cheskin - PA Images/Getty Images) Inspector Ram Kishore Sha from the district police office ...

Airport officials in Nepal say the small private Twin Otter airplane was on a short half-hour flight Wednesday morning from the capital Kathmandu to Lukla town in eastern Nepal when it crashed while t ...

This airport presents so many dangers that the local civil aviation authority only allows pilots with major credentials to land there. A small airport in Nepal has gained international fame for how ...

NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today intervened and asked the Indian embassy in Nepal to look into a case involving a few Indians who were stranded in the Himalayan nation's ...

The first ascent of Mt Everest in 1953 and the first flights into Lukla Airport a decade later opened up the trekking trail to the world’s highest mountain to the world. The hiking route from Lukla to ...