Ophthalmology students from some Latin American countries have the chance of learning the latest technologies of the field aboard an MD-10 aircraft which has been transformed into an air hospital.

Dawa Yangzum Sherpa becomes Nepal's first woman to earn a prestigious international qualification in mountaineering.

Iranian speed climber Reza Alipour Shenazandifard has been nominated for the IWGA Athlete of the Year title.

Two climbers die and seven others are missing following an avalanche in a mountain in southwestern Iran.

Iranian nurse and mountaineer Mostafa Ahmadi has scaled the Mera North Peak in the Himalayas.

The body of a missing Malaysian mountain climber has been found in Damavand after nearly one year.

Iranian climber dies of altitude sickness while ascending Lenin Peak on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.