Mount Everest
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Sherpa guide Pasang matches world record by climbing highest peak of Mount Everest for 26th time
World | May 14, 2023, 09:09 PM ISTDawa, who made his first successful climb in 1998, matched the record number of summits with Kami Rita Sherpa.
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Russian mountaineer unfurls Ukraine flag on top of Mount Everest, netizens call her 'brave hero'
Trending | Jun 09, 2022, 11:54 AM ISTRussian mountaineer Katya Lipka has gone against President Vladimir Putin as the latter wages war on Ukraine. She scaled Mount Everest and unfurled Ukraine flag at the peak.
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Mt Everest base camp to soon have world's highest cell phone tower, ultra fast 4G connectivity
World | Mar 23, 2022, 01:28 PM ISTThe Everest region receives nearly 60,000 trekkers and mountaineers annually. It is a high revenue-generating segment of the tourism industry of Nepal because of the allure of the world's highest peak.
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Joint team of NIM-JIMWS mountaineers climb Mt Everest
News | Jun 06, 2021, 05:45 PM ISTA team of mountaineers led by Col Amit Bisht, Principal of Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM), scaled Mt. Everest on June 1.
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Coronavirus fails to deter hundreds of climbers on Mount Everest
World | May 29, 2021, 04:36 PM ISTA year after Mount Everest was closed to climbers as the pandemic swept across the globe, hundreds are making the final push to the summit with only a few more days left in the season, saying they are undeterred by a coronavirus outbreak in base camp.
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Bad dream stopped Everest guide from climbing peak 26th time
World | May 25, 2021, 02:47 PM ISTA total of 408 foreign climbers were issued permits to climb Everest this season, aided by several hundred Sherpas and support staff who've been
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Climbing guide says at least 100 coronavirus cases on Mount Everest
World | May 22, 2021, 11:54 PM ISTAn expert climbing guide said Saturday that a coronavirus outbreak on Mount Everest has infected at least 100 climbers and support staff, giving the first comprehensive estimate amid official Nepalese denials of a COVID-19 cluster on the world’s highest peak.
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China cancels Everest climbs over fears of virus from Nepal
World | May 15, 2021, 10:52 AM ISTChina has cancelled attempts to climb Mount Everest from its side of the world's highest peak because of fears of importing COVID-19 cases from neighbouring Nepal
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China to draw 'separation line' on peak of Mount Everest
World | May 10, 2021, 05:26 PM ISTChina will draw a “separation line” atop Mount Everest to prevent the coronavirus from being spread by climbers ascending Nepal's side of the mountain, Chinese state media reported Monday.
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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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EXPLAINER: Why did Mount Everest’s height change?
World | Dec 09, 2020, 05:26 PM ISTThe world’s highest mountain is now officially a little higher, and that might not be the end of the story.
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Nepal announces newly-measured height of Mount Everest at 8848.86 meters
World | Dec 08, 2020, 08:35 PM IST8848.86 metres is the newly-measured height of Mount Everest, Nepal's Foreign Minister announced on Tuesday. Nepal undertook the initiation to measure the height of the world's tallest peak after speculations that widely accepted that the height of 8,848 metres might not be the actual length after the 2015 earthquake which shook the nation.
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Nepal to announce new height of Mt Everest soon
World | Nov 26, 2020, 11:22 AM ISTA Cabinet meeting on Wednesday evening gave nod to Nepal's Ministry of Land Management to announce the height of Everest and according to some media reports, as the peak has appeared taller than it was but no official confirmation yet.
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Chinese explorers start Everest climb amid COVID-19 pandemic: Report
World | Apr 04, 2020, 07:39 PM ISTA group of Chinese mountaineers has begun an expedition on Mount Everest as China limped back to normalcy after the coronavirus outbreak.
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Nepal's lack of preparedness to deal with COVID-19 may impact Everest season: Industry experts
Other Sports | Feb 28, 2020, 03:13 PM ISTMany Chinese climbers have started cancelling their expedition bookings after the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Four-member Sherpa team to attempt to scale Mt. Everest in record five days in winter
Other Sports | Feb 24, 2020, 08:23 PM ISTThe team members will be battling extreme cold, high winds and piled-up snow and ice as they try to become the first to reach the top of Everest in the winter in 27 years.
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Mount Everest is melting fast, satellite images reveal
Science | Jan 17, 2020, 11:23 AM ISTIf the research presented in December last year is to be believed, the glaciers along Mount Everest's flanks had shrunk significantly from the top down and this happened in between 1962 to 2018.
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Everest climbers will now have to disclose full medical history, mandatory insurance
World | Dec 16, 2019, 11:06 AM ISTA new set of rules has now been introduced for Mount Everest climbers. Until now, climbers below the age of 16, persons with serious diseases and criminal history were the only ones barred from climbing mountains.
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Nepali climber scales world's 14 highest peaks in 190 days
World | Oct 29, 2019, 01:56 PM ISTNirmal 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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Nepal, China agree to re-measure height of Mt. Everest
World | Oct 14, 2019, 09:44 PM ISTThe decision to jointly re-measure the height of Mt. Everest was taken after Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with his Nepalese counterpart Bidya Devi Bhandari and Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli in Kathmandu during the weekend.