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Nepali mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa on Sunday broke his own world record by scaling Mount Everest for the 32nd time, while fellow climber Lhakpa Sherpa extended her record for the most Everest summits by a woman with her 11th successful ascent.The twin milestones were confirmed by Nepal’s Department of Tourism, which said Kami Rita reached…
The mountain did not open its path to him easily. It asked for cold, hunger, bruised feet and long days on the road. It asked for discipline when life was uncertain and courage when the odds looked bluntly unfair. But Kesav Suneesh, a 21-year-old from Kerala’s Alappuzha district, kept walking. A B.Com student from IHRD…
SIRONJ: “Bhuri” for fair-skinned foreigners. “Tori” for restless bustle. British surveyors mapped a continent from this ridge. From here came numbers that measured the world’s tallest mountain. Mount Everest entered history but Bhuri Tori slipped out of it. Name lingered and science faded. Today, thieves measure stones here.Perched on a wind-lashed hill at Kalyanpur village…
Saanika Shah is a mountaineer, who also carries Bharatanatyam with her into the mountains – a classical dance form she has trained in since childhood. During one of her recent expeditions, she brought both parts of her life together in a moment that has now struck an emotional chord online.At Everest Base Camp, ahead of…
Nepal’s spring Everest climbing season opened this week amid a police probe into an alleged insurance fraud worth nearly $20 million in which guides, helicopter operators, hospital staff and agents are accused of staging or inflating medical emergencies to trigger costly helicopter evacuations and bogus insurance claims.Police said the methods included mixing baking soda into…
Nepal’s spring Everest climbing season opened this week amid a police probe into an alleged insurance fraud worthe nearly $20 million in which guides, helicopter operators, hospital staff and agents are accused of staging or inflating medical emergencies to trigger costly helicopter evacuations and bogus insurance claims. Police said the methods included mixing baking soda…
Nepal’s tourism industry is facing one of its most serious controversies in years after police uncovered a $20 million insurance fraud scheme linked to Mount Everest trekking routes. Authorities say a network of guides, trekking agencies, helicopter operators and medical personnel worked together to exploit international travellers by deliberately inducing illness and orchestrating unnecessary emergency…
On a cold night in 2011, a young national-level volleyball player lay alone on railway tracks, her life split into a before and an after she could never have imagined. That young woman was Arunima Sinha, and the story that began with unimaginable pain would eventually end at the highest point on Earth. She remembers…
Everest wasn’t always a mountain! These 200 million-year-old marine fossils prove the Himalaya was once underwater Imagine standing 8,000 metres above the sea floor at Mount Everest, and you find a marine fossil. You should not be surprised because fossils of marine animals have been documented near the summit of Mount Everest, findings that continue…
It was not winter, but the weather still gave me chills. Hill stations are mostly cold, irrespective of the season. It was sometime in August, when I first made my way to George Everest House in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand. It is one of the least explored gems in the mountains of Mussoorie. I had heard tales…
