Tenzing-Hillary Everest Marathon today

NAMCHE BAZAAR: Three-month pregnant Ang Dami Sherpa bagged her second women's Tenzing-Hillary Everest Marathon title clocking 6:02:10 ahead of Mani Kala Rai (6:02:20) and Tara Ketner (7:28:10) of the United States. Ang Dami, who had also won the ...

After starting from Bhandar and walking for a week, we reached Namche Bazaar (3360 M), the administrative capital of Solukhumbu and the headquarters of Sherpa territory. It was my first time walking through the Solukhumbu region on the classic ...

A lack of oxygen in the body is a major cause of death in intensive care. Yet little is known about why some people die from the condition, known as hypoxia, while others survive. In this special edition of The Cure, anaesthetist Dr Joff Lacey ...

When Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953, they ended a decades-long race to scale the mountain and started a much more immediate race to get the news out to the world. This was famously won by ...

Summer is the low season in Australia and it's a good opportunity to enjoy the continent's wonderful wildlife from the comfort of one of its magnificent, five-star eco-lodges. You can stay four nights and pay for three at Southern Ocean Lodge ...

Plenty of newspapers have reported that there remains only one survivor from the 1953 British expedition to the Everest -- the Welsh author and historian Jan Morris, the embedded reporter from The Times who broke the news of Tenzing Norgay and ...

MAY 31 - In the 60 years after Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary first conquered the world's highest mountain on May 29, 1953, people have consistently flocked to try their own luck at scaling Everest, and most have ...

New Delhi: Army Chief General Bikram Singh will be on a two-day visit to Nepal from June 10 to flag-in a joint Indo-Nepalese expedition which successfully scaled the Mount Everest around the 60th anniversary of scaling of world's highest peak by Edmund ...

Stones from the top of Mt Everest have been taken to the Dead Sea in Israel as part of a project called Mount Everest and Dead Sea Stones Exchange that brought stones from the Dead Sea to the Khumbu last month. The monuments in the two countries ...