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  Man who conquered Mt Everest faces social boycott in his own village

  India | January 16, 2015 14:50 IST

  New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a 30 year old man Rahul Yelange, who was part of the team that successfully climbed Mount Everest in May 2012, was boycotted by elders of his own Budruk

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  Phillip Hughes' bat to be on the top of the Mount Everest

  Cricket | December 26, 2014 12:56 IST

  Cricket Australia is working with the Cricket Association of Nepal on an initiative to place a bat on top of Mount Everest in memory of Phillip Hughes. CAN sent an email to CA chairman Wally Edwards

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  Five-year-old Indian treks up to Everest base camp

  India | October 22, 2014 12:05 IST

  Patna: The parents of five-year-old Harshit Saumitra, the youngest climber to reach the base camp of Mount Everest, are trying to register their son's name in thed Guinness World Records and Limca Book of Records."We

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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,

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  Indian teens felicitated in Nepal for climbing Mount Everest

  World | June 01, 2014 23:41 IST

  Kathmandu: Two teenage Indian mountaineers, including a 13-year-old girl, were today felicitated in Nepal for successfully climbing Mount Everest from the Chinese side of the world's highest peak.S Anand Kumar (16) and Malavath Poorna, who

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  13-year-old Malavath Purna becomes youngest woman to scale Everest

  India | May 25, 2014 17:28 IST

  Hyderabad: In a historic feat for Indian mountaineering, 13-year-old Malavath Purna today became the youngest female climber to scale the Mount Everest.Purna was accompanied by Sadhanapalli Anand Kumar (16), a Class IX student from the

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  13 killed in Mount Everest avalanche

  World | April 18, 2014 16:17 IST

  Kathmandu:  A massive avalanche today struck Mount Everest killing at least 13 Nepalese Sherpa guides and injuring several others in one of the most lethal mountaineering accidents in recent history on the world's highest peak.An

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  Mount Everest was born after India collided with Asia: report

  World | March 25, 2014 9:34 IST

  London: Mount Everest - the world's highest mountain - may have been born as Asia was squeezed like a tube ofBSE 1.61 % toothpaste after India smashed into the rest of the continent, scientists say.

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  Oldest climber returns safely from Everest

  World | May 26, 2013 17:05 IST

  Kathmandu, May 26: A brief improvement in weather conditions has allowed the oldest person to climb Mount Everest to leave the mountain on a helicopter.The aircraft picked up 80-year-old Yuichiro Miura at Camp 2 and

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  Three mountaineers from Jharkhand scale Mt Everest

  Other Sports | May 26, 2012 17:37 IST

  Jamshedpur, May 26: Three moutaineers from Jharkhand today scaled the world's tallest peak, Mount Everest, Tata Steel sources said.Meghlal Mahato and Binita Soren, reached the summit at 6:50 a.m. and Rajendra Singh Pal, brother of

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  73-year-old Japanese woman scales Mount Everest

  World | May 19, 2012 13:26 IST

  Katmandu, May 19: A 73-year-old Japanese woman climbed to Mount Everest's peak Saturday, smashing her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale the world's highest mountain.Tamae Watanabe reached Everest's 8,850-meter-high (29,035-foot-high) summit

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  Prince Harry 'To Climb Mount Everest'

  World | January 01, 2012 16:25 IST

  London, Jan 1: Prince Harry, the third-in-line to the British throne, is all set to realise his long-held ambition of conquering Mount Everest this year, a report said. The 27-year-old Prince had dropped a broad