Over the past few weeks, we’ve highlighted a number of videos depicting airplanes taking off at breakneck speed and astounding angles. From an F-16 Fighter Jet climbing 15,000 feet in 20 seconds to a ...

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 ...

Would you board a flight knowing the runway ends at a cliff’s edge? Welcome to Lukla Airport (Tenzing-Hillary Airport) in Nepal—a place where landing feels more like a daredevil stunt than a routine ...

If you want to climb Mt. Everest, you may very well find yourself flying into Lukla Airport. This is not what anyone would consider a good thing. The airport is widely considered the most dangerous in ...

At an altitude of 2843m, the small airstrip here has earned a reputation as one of the most extreme and dangerous airports in the world. The single runway is narrow, short and sloped. Miss the runway ...

Not just any aircraft can overcome the unique challenges that the Tenzing Hillary Airport, also referred to as the Lukla Airport, presents. Known as the one of the essential destinations along the way ...

For half a century pilots have needed to navigate snow-capped peaks and endure erratic weather to land on a runway just 500 metres long that has been carved into a mountain ridge and sits by a ...

A journalist, climber, and public speaker, Alan Arnette is one of the world’s most respected chroniclers of Mount Everest. He climbed the world’s highest peak in 2011 and reached the summit of K2 in ...

Scan the feedback section of travel sites: they are full of laments from frustrated trekkers stuck at Lukla’s Tenzing-Hillary Airport waiting days on end for flights out. After having descended from ...

A small aircraft crashed and went up in flames on Wednesday as it tried to land in foggy weather at a tiny mountain airport Lukla, near Mt. Everst. 18 people were killed, including 16 tourists from ...

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