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Mount Everest to remain shut this season: Icefall Doctors
World | May 04, 2015, 05:01 PM ISTKathmandu: Nepal government has decided to close Mt Everest for climbing activities this season as routes above the base camp were impossible to be fixed, which were destroyed by the deadly avalanche.At least 22 climbers
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Indian Army doctor saves lives on Mount Everest
India | Apr 28, 2015, 10:57 PM ISTNew Delhi: For about 70 climbers on Mount Everest base camp, hit by the devastating earthquake in Nepal, Captain Ritesh Goel of the Indian Army was a life saver. Goel, who has also served in the
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IAF rescues 16 mountaineers from Pune stranded on Mt Everest
India | Apr 28, 2015, 10:43 PM ISTKathmandu: The Indian Air Force today rescued 16 Pune-based mountaineers, including an 11-year-old girl, who spent two days in a make-shift tent after being stuck on Mount Everest in Nepal.The trekking group from Pune who
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Noida mountaineer reports earthquake from Mt. Makalu, grabs eyeballs
India | Apr 28, 2015, 04:59 PM ISTAn avid Noida mountaineer and the third youngest Indian to climb Mt. Everest – Arjun Vajpai – recently posted a video showing avalanches in mountains caused due to earthquake on his Facebook account, and in
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#NepalDevastated: Earthquake leaves over 3300 dead, rain hinders rescue efforts
World | Apr 27, 2015, 01:11 PM ISTKathmandu: The death toll from Nepal's earthquake soared past 3,300 Monday, and how much higher it would rise depended largely on the condition of vulnerable mountain villages that rescue workers were still struggling to reach
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#NepalDevastated: Survivors sleep in open for second day, death toll crosses 2500-mark
World | Apr 27, 2015, 06:54 AM ISTKathmandu: Shell-shocked and sleeping in the streets, tens of thousands of Nepalese braced against terrifying aftershocks Sunday while digging for survivors in the devastation wrought a day earlier by a massive earthquake that ripped across
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Bengal mountaineers safe: Mamata Banerjee
India | Apr 25, 2015, 09:18 PM ISTKolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said mountaineers from the state who have gone on an expedition to Mt Everest are safe."Rudraprasad Haldar of West Bengal Police has informed from Everest base camp
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Glaciers in Tibet retreating at alarming rate
World | Apr 23, 2015, 02:14 PM ISTBeijing: China's glaciers particularly those in Tibet have retreated by about 7,600 square kms - nearly 18 per cent - in the last 65 years and even the thick ice around the base camp of
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Top Nepal officials fly to Everest to end crisis
World | Apr 24, 2014, 10:56 AM ISTKatmandu, Nepal: Top tourism officials in Nepal are on their way to Mount Everest's base camp to negotiate with Sherpas who want to abandon the climbing season after an avalanche killed 16 of the mountain
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Haryana man who reached Mt Everest forced to sell vegetables
India | Dec 29, 2013, 01:45 PM ISTTohana (Fatehabad): Ram Lal, 24, climbed the world's highest peak Mt Everest in May this year and unfurled the Indian tricolour.When he returned home, the Haryana government promised him Rs 5 lakh award, but he
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After scaling Everest, Haryana twins to try more peaks
India | Jun 13, 2013, 08:22 PM ISTNew Delhi, June 13: Twin sisters from Haryana, Tashi Malik and Naungshi Malik, who recently scaled the highest peak in the world, Mt. Everest, now aim to summit the highest peaks on each of the
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Real-life heroine Arunima Sinha: Thrown from a running train, lost her leg, conquers Mt. Everest
India | May 21, 2013, 10:33 PM ISTNew Delhi, May 21: Former national level volleyball player Arunima Sinha, who had lost a leg after being thrown off a moving train, today created history by becoming the first amputee to scale Mount Everest.Sinha,
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Indian sisters become first twins to conquer Mt. Everest
World | May 20, 2013, 10:14 PM ISTKathmandu, May 20: Two 21-year-old Indian sisters have scripted history by becoming the first twins ever to conquer the summit of Mount Everest together.Tashi and Nancy Malik from Dehra Dun achieved this feat by successfully
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Nine more climbers from North-East scale Mt Everest
India | May 19, 2013, 08:49 PM ISTItanagar, May 19: It was a 'red letter day' for the Indian mountaineering fraternity as nine more climbers from North East India scaled the Mount Everest and raised the tricolor on Saturday.Six climbers started their
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Third woman from Bengal Chanda Gayen scales Mt Everest
India | May 18, 2013, 09:36 PM ISTKolkata, May 18: Woman mountaineer Chanda Gayen has successfully scaled the Mt Everest today, becoming the third woman from West Bengal to achieve the feat. A message from the base camp at Solo Khumbu in Nepal
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Oldest woman conquerer of Mt. Everest undeterred by failure
Other Sports | Jul 04, 2012, 03:25 PM ISTJamshedpur, Jul 4: India's oldest woman mountaineer to conquer Mt. Everest Premlata Agarwal will embark on scaling Mt. Elbrus (18,510 ft) in Europe in August followed by Carstensz Pyramid (16,050 ft) in Oceania in October.Undeterred
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Jharkhand's Premlata Agarwal To Scale World's Five Summits
India | Jan 24, 2012, 08:45 PM ISTJamshedpur, Jan 24: First woman mountaineer from Jharkhand Premlata Agarwal, who conquered Mt Everest last May, is now aiming to scale the remaining five summits across the world.Also the country's oldest woman to scale the