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'Traffic jam' on Mt Everest as climbers stuck, netizens call it 'Ghatkopar station' | WATCH
Trending | May 28, 2024, 06:58 PM ISTMount Everest, a popular hotspot for mountaineers, is also known for frequent accidents and deaths as climbers experience harsh conditions. A British climber and his Nepali guide went missing on Tuesday after a chunk of snow fell, causing them to fall down the side of the mountain.
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Mt Everest Summit: Search operation underway for missing Indian-origin climber Shrinivas Sainis Datt
World | May 24, 2023, 07:18 AM ISTShrinivas Sainis Dattatraya a senior manager for software engineering at the real estate technology company JLL Technologies, can be seen in the photos sporting sunglasses, an oxygen mask, and orange winter clothing.
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Nepal's Kami Rita Sherpa successfully scales Mt. Everest for the 28th time, sets new world record
World | May 23, 2023, 02:41 PM ISTThe 53-year-old record-holding mountain guide remained on the 8848.86 meters-high top at around 9:20 a.m. Tuesday, as indicated by Chhang Dawa Sherpa, Expedition Manager of the Seven Summit Trek, who organised the expedition.
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Anand Mahindra shares 360-degree view from top of Mount Everest - Watch
India | Apr 05, 2022, 06:36 PM ISTSharing a refreshing 360 degree view from atop Mount Everest, Industrialist Anand Mahindra also wrote a message on Twitter.
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IIT Delhi alumnus scales Mt Everest within seven weeks of recovering from COVID-19
India | Jul 11, 2021, 05:00 PM ISTThis year, amid the uncertainty posed by the pandemic, he reached Kathmandu with the team to begin the expedition. "But I hit a roadblock when I tested positive for Covid and had to return to Jaipur. I was feeling fatigued since a few days but I had no other symptoms," Chaudhury told PTI.
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Jeetega India | Harshvardhan Joshi, a mountaineer who conquered Mt Everest in unique way
News | Jun 08, 2021, 09:00 PM ISTIndian mountaineer Harshvardhan Joshi has achieved the rare feat of scaling the world's highest peak, Mt Everest, using eco-friendly means. Joshi and his team used mobile solar panels for heating. Generally, expedition teams carry diesel for use.
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Meet 1st blind Asian & a Hong Kong teacher who become record-setting climbers of Mt.Everest
offbeat | Jun 01, 2021, 10:22 PM ISTChina's Zhang Hong, 46, became Asia's first blind man, and the world's third, to scale the peak from the Nepal side. While, Tsang Yin-Hung, 45, a former teacher from Hong Kong, became the fastest woman to scale the peak. Check out what the record setters have to say after their achievement.
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Coronavirus scales Mt Everest! Norwegian climber first to test positive
World | Apr 23, 2021, 08:14 PM ISTA Norwegian climber became the first to be tested for COVID-19 in Mount Everest base camp and was flown by helicopter to Kathmandu, where he was hospitalized.
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China's state TV's deleted social media post claiming entire Mt Everest draws flak in Nepal
World | May 10, 2020, 07:30 PM ISTWhile the eight-day long post by the Chinese state media was deleted and a new one was put up on Sunday, it has nevertheless opened old wounds in China-Nepal relationship
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Season's highest, the toll on Mt. everest reaches 11
India | May 29, 2019, 10:22 AM ISTIndians have topped among the international climbers attempting to scale the Summit this spring with a total number of 78 of them getting permission.
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Ian Toothill, a British man becomes first cancer patient to summit Mount Everest!
Life | Jun 08, 2017, 04:32 PM ISTBritish cancer-patient managed to raise 31,500 pounds for cancer charity
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Age is no obstacle: Nepali aims to regain title of oldest Everest climber
World | Apr 12, 2017, 03:56 PM ISTIn an attempt to regain the title of oldest Everest climber, a Nepali man is once again planning to climb the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak next month during a window of favorable weather on the summit, at age 85.
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Indian Navy's second Mt Everest expedition flagged off
India | Mar 23, 2017, 11:31 PM ISTIndian Navy's second expedition to the Mount Everest was today flagged off by Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba, 50 years after the peak was first scaled by Navy climbers. A group of 24
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Pune’s constable couple suspended from service over false claim of scaling Mt Everest
India | Nov 17, 2016, 04:25 PM ISTPune Police personnel Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod, who on May 23 this year claimed to have become the first married couple in history to scale Mt. Everest, were suspended after the fact-finding committee found their claim to be bogus.
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Climbed 77 steps of life: Junko Tabei, first woman to scale Everest, dies
World | Oct 22, 2016, 09:32 PM ISTAfter climbing 77 steps of her life, Junko Tabei, the first woman to scale Earth's elevated mountain, died of peritoneal cancer at a Saitama hospital on Thursday morning. Tabei died Thursday of cancer at a
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Indian Army team led by J&K officer scales Mt Everest
India | May 19, 2016, 10:17 AM ISTJammu: An Indian Army mountaineering team led by an officer belonging to Jammu and Kashmir Thursday scaled Mount Everest. Colonel S.D. Goswami, spokesman of army's Udhampur-headquartered Northern Command told IANS in winter capital Jammu on
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Himalayas subsided by 60 cm after Nepal quake
World | Jan 12, 2016, 09:04 PM ISTLondon: The Himalayas subsided by up to 60 cm after the April 2015 Nepal earthquake -- but the world's tallest peak, the 8,848-metre Mt Everest was too far from the subsidence area to be affected,
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India-Bangla expedition climbs Kashmir's Mt.Nun
World | Jul 11, 2015, 07:36 AM ISTKolkata: A joint India-Bangladesh team of mountaineers have scaled the 7,135 metre high Mt. Nun in Punjab Himalaya under Jammu and Kashmir, a release said on Friday.The Mountaineering Association of Krishnanagar (MAK) from West Bengal
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Over 70 percent of Everest glacier's volume may be lost by 2100: Study
World | May 27, 2015, 12:42 PM ISTNew Delhi: Over 70 percent of the glacier volume in the Mount Everest region in the Himalayas could be lost in 85 years if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, a new paper suggests. It
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I feared that ground would open up and swallow us: Mountaineer
India | May 04, 2015, 07:06 PM ISTJamshedpur: Moments after the earthquake jolted Nepal, climbers of Mt Everest saw avalanches rushing down from three sides with no place to hide, recounts mountaineer Hemant Gupta.I was concerned that ground would open up into