Five mountaineers killed on Kanchenjunga

Hungarian mountaineers Zsolt ErÅss, Lajos Koll¡r, Pter Kiss and Slovak national Jaroslav Dudka, as part of the Hungarians on peaks over 8000 metres initiative, plan to climb the world's third highest peak, the Kanchenjunga.At a joint press ...

Mountaineers Zsolt Erµss and Pter Kiss disappeared on their way back to camp after scaling the 8,586-metre Mount Kanchenjunga on the border of Nepal and India on Monday. Fellow mountaineer Jºlia Nedeczky told Infor¡di³ that the 24-hour scaling ...

KATHMANDU - An 80-year-old Japanese man who underwent heart surgery in January reached the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday, becoming the oldest person to scale the world's highest mountain. Yuichiro Miura and his party, including his second son ...

Six students from Lawrence School, Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday set a record by becoming the youngest to scale Mt. Everest. Five boys from the hill state also climbed the Everest at the same time as they were part of the nine member National Cadet ...

KATHMANDU: Two Sherpa brothers of Nurbuchaur in Makalu VDC in Sankhuwasabha district in eastern Nepal have set a new record in mountaineering. Climbers Mingma Sherpa and Chhangdawa Sherpa have set a record by climbing all 14 peaks of the world above ...

Kurseong is famous not only for its majestic mountain ranges, but also colonial schools, tea estates and, of course, its date with revolutionaries like Subhas Chandra Bose. SOMEN SENGUPTA comes back rejuvenated after a short visit to this place If ...

The thin air and vertiginous slopes that exist at 20,000-plus feet above sea level on Mount Everest may not make for the ideal battleground -- but they certainly make for a captivating one. So on April 27, when a fight erupted between three ...

APR 12 - I fly above the clouds; clouds that float like blobs of white cotton and rise like mountains of various shapes and magnitudes. The high Himalayas allure me, invite me to their shining castles of pristine whiteness. After an hour-long ...

APR 05 - A four-day walk from Taplejung, and we were in Tseram, 3879 metres above sea level, on May 8, 2012. Moving further up, however, would be difficult; the weather was absolutely unforgiving at this point. The grim conditions forced us to spend ...