Mount Everest
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American climber dies, Indian missing on Everest
World | May 21, 2017, 09:01 PM ISTRoland Yearwood, 50, from Georgiana, Alabama, died on the mountain on Sunday but other details were not immediately known.
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Indian woman creates hisory, twice climbs Everest in five days
Other Sports | May 21, 2017, 07:37 PM ISTAnshu unfurled the Indian Tricolor on the mountain's crest on May 16 at 9 a.m., and completed the feat for a second time at 7.45 a.m., on Sunday.
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Thrill-seeking couple gets married at the top of Mt. Everest! Check the stunning pictures here
Who cares | May 14, 2017, 03:04 PM ISTThis couple tied the knots at a height of 17,600-feet at Mt. Everest
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85-yr-old Nepal man dies trying to become oldest Everest climber
World | May 06, 2017, 10:32 PM ISTMin Bahadur Sherchan died at the Everest base camp on Saturday evening but the cause of death was not immediately clear, said Dinesh Bhattarai, chief of Nepal’s Tourism Department.
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Nepal braces for 'traffic jam' at Mt Everest
World | Apr 16, 2017, 04:19 PM ISTNepalese officials are bracing for a "traffic jam" at Mount Everest this season due to a surge in the number of climbers eyeing to conquer the world's tallest peak.
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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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Good News: Mount Everest regions to get free wi-fi soon
World | Feb 09, 2017, 02:58 PM ISTWeak mobile signal blues are now going to be a thing of past with the Nepalese government embarking on a drive to equip the region around the Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world,
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‘First Indian couple’ to conquer Mt. Everest never scaled the summit, says complaint; probe ordered
India | Jun 29, 2016, 03:48 PM ISTMumbai: Three weeks back, Maharashtra police constables Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod grabbed headlines after they claimed that they had conquered Mount Everest on May 23, becoming the first Indian couple to scale world's highest summit.
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Overcoming the past and how! Meet Arunima Sinha, the first woman amputee to conquer Mount Everest
India | Jun 20, 2016, 11:51 AM ISTIn 2011, the 26-year-old national level volleyball player from Lucknow lost one of her legs in a horrific accident when she was thrown off a moving train for resisting a chain-snatching attempt by hoodlums.
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Indian couple sets record by conquering Everest together
India | Jun 07, 2016, 07:12 AM ISTKathmandu: Right from when they got married in 2008, this couple, both in the Maharashtra Police, dreamt of together ascending Mt. Everest, the tallest peak in the world, and even delayed becoming parents till they
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Refusing to give up on their dream, Indian couple conquers Mount Everest, sets record
India | Jun 06, 2016, 10:34 PM ISTNew Delhi: The feeling one gets after realizing his/her dream has no match. Going through such euphoria is an Indian couple who accomplished their long-pending dream of climbing up the tallest peak in the world
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Three missing Indian climbers found dead at Mount Everest, one rescued
India | May 27, 2016, 05:01 PM ISTFour Indian climbers went missing on Saturday during an expedition to Mount Everest.
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Indomitable spirit: 10 NCC girls who conquered Mount Everest
India | May 26, 2016, 02:15 PM ISTIndomitable spirit: 10 NCC girls who conquered Mount Everest
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Five Indian climbers die on Mount Everest, two others missing
India | May 23, 2016, 07:49 PM ISTKathmandu: Another Indian climber has died on Mount Everest and two others have gone missing, expedition organizers today, taking the death toll from the ongoing Himalayan climbing season to the world's highest peak to five.
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Five Indian Everest climbers missing: Nepal Police
India | May 23, 2016, 12:04 AM ISTKathmandu: Five Indian climbers attempting to scale the world's tallest peak, Mount Everest in Nepal, have gone missing, Nepal Police said today. They were reported missing since Saturday morning while attempting to climb the towering
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5 important history events of 29th may
Who cares | May 29, 2015, 03:57 PM ISTHistory is not created in a day! But, a day can bring many changes in history. Following are five historical events that happened this day and changed the future course of the world.1. In the
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PM Modi meets mountaineering team that scaled Everest 50 years ago
India | May 20, 2015, 11:04 PM ISTNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday met members of the Indian mountaineering team that scaled Mount Everest for the first time 50 years ago.Congratulating the surviving members of the team for their historic
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13 aftershocks jolt Nepal as toll in fresh quake rises to 79
World | May 13, 2015, 11:19 PM ISTKathmandu: Over a dozen aftershocks jolted Nepal today, keeping people on edge a day after a powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake killed 79 people in the Himalayan nation that had just begun to rebuild itself following the
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19 killed as new powerful quake jolts Nepal
World | May 12, 2015, 05:09 PM ISTKathmandu: At least 19 people were today killed and nearly 1,000 injured in Nepal when a new, powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake, jolted the Himalayan nation already battered by widespread death and destruction brought by the temblor
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Nepal quake: Dozens of cracked buildings collapse
World | May 12, 2015, 02:44 PM ISTKathmandu: Dozens of buildings which had developed cracks in the April 25 temblor collapsed on Tuesday when another major earthquake shook the country.An eyewitness said that he saw a building collapse here. Another said that