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Everest: 70 years later

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There have been over 10,000 ascents since Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary summitted the mountain. Today the highest point on earth is a public arena with human traffic jams and helicopter shortcuts

Nepali sherpa Kami Rita scales Everest for record 28th time; death toll at 11

Pasang Dawa summits Mt. Everest for record 27 times, ties with Kami

Nepal’s Sherpa guide regains title for most climbs of Mount Everest after 27th trip

Into the heart of the Himalayas

Indian climber Anurag Maloo went missing on April 17, 2023, after falling into a deep crevasse on Nepal’s Mount Annapurna.

Doctors revive Indian climber in Nepal Anurag Maloo after 3 hours, condition 'still critical', says his brother

Microbes at the top of the world

Indian mountaineer Baljeet Kaur, who went missing from Nepal’s Mt. Annapurna, found alive

A photograph depicting a portion of the rock art found near Jackanarai village recently

Another ancient rock art site discovered in the Nilgiris, local Kurumba tribe may have cultural link to it, say experts

Rohan Premkumar

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‘It was only when I came to India and to other parts of Asia that I realised that actually everyone else’s history was much more interesting than mine,’ says John Keay.

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Review of Silvia Vasquez-Lavado’s In the Shadow of the Mountain: The mountain as refuge

While the book primarily focuses on the western Himalayas, Matheran, Darjeeling, Kotagiri and Hazaribagh too find representation.

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File picture of American couple Hilaree Nelson and James Morrison arriving in Kathmandu, Nepal on October 4, 2018. A rescue operation is under way to find Nelson, who fell off a mountain near the peak

Famed American ski mountaineer missing in Nepal mountain

Indian Air Force (IAF) Chinook helicopter in the Ladakh region, in Leh. File

Indian Air Force rescues Israeli national from high-altitude area in Ladakh

A view of the front of Satopanth glacier. File.

Belagavi mountaineer completes pre-Everest expedition

B Rishikesh Bahadurdesai

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Tapi Mra, first Arunachalee to climb Everest, goes missing

The apple farmers in Uttarakhand

A box of apples to help Tons Valley farmers ride the storm

Pakistani mountaineer Samina Baig. File.

Pakistani, Iranian climbers become first women to scale K2

Anmish Varma posing atop North America’s highest summit. Photo: Special Arrangement

Visakhapatnam’s Anmish Varma scales Mt. Denali

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