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  Mumbai Navy School's Class 12 girl conquers seven highest peaks in the world | Video

  India | December 29, 2024 22:36 IST

  Kaamya Karthikeyan was sixteen years old when she scaled Mount Everest. She said she was 7 when she took her first trek in Uttarakhand.

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  Russian mountaineer, on mission to retrieve body of climber lost in 2023, killed in Pakistan

  World | August 19, 2024 13:05 IST

  Pakistan Army helicopters airlifted two stranded Russian climbers, a day after an avalanche hit a group of five mountaineers who were trying to scale the sixth-highest mountain in Pakistan.

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  18-year-old man dies after being struck by lightning on Germany's highest peak

  World | July 22, 2024 15:19 IST

  The 18-year-old German resident was part of a trio who had taken the mountain railway up the Zugspitze late Sunday afternoon and proceeded to ascend to the summit, an elevation gain of approximately 80 meters from a popular terrace utilised by numerous visitors.

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  Nepali climber scales world's 14 highest peaks in 190 days

  World | October 29, 2019 13:56 IST

  Nirmal Purja, 36, known as Nims, broke the previous record of a South Korean climber, Kim Chang-ho, who achieved the feat in 2003 to scale all the peaks higher than 8,000 metres in seven years, 10 months and six days

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  Samina Baig becomes first Pak woman to conquer world's seven highest peaks

  World | July 27, 2014 14:23 IST

  Islamabad: Samina Baig became the first Pakistani woman to climb seven highest peaks in seven continents, media reported on Sunday.Baig, 23, has completed the challenge of climbing seven of the highest mountains around the world,