Nepali climbers begin Everest season with first summitNepali climbers have successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest. This achievement opens the crucial climbing route for hundreds of mo...
13 May, 2026, 02.03 PM IST
Mount Everest season opens late, with climbers undeterred by huge ice block and high travel costsHundreds of climbers are attempting Mount Everest despite an unstable ice block and increased costs. The Khumbu Icefall route, crucial for ...
07 May, 2026, 11.24 AM IST
Kanchha Sherpa, last surviving member of pioneering Mount Everest expedition, dies at 92Kanchha Sherpa, the last survivor of the historic 1953 Mount Everest expedition, has passed away at 92. He was part of the team that saw Ed...
16 Oct, 2025, 11.06 PM IST
Purnima Shrestha of Nepal breaks the record by climbing Mount Everest three times in two weeksNepali photojournalist Purnima Shrestha achieves record-breaking feat by summiting Mount Everest thrice in one climbing season, making hist...
25 May, 2024, 03.58 PM IST
Nepal's Everest Man- Kami Rita climbs Mount Everest for a record 30th timeKami Rita Sherpa, from Thame village in Solukhumbu, Nepal, set a world record with his 30th Mount Everest summit. Khimlal Gautam, Chief of ...
22 May, 2024, 01.20 PM IST
Nepal's mountaineer Kami Rita summits Mt Everest for a record 29th timeNepal's Kami Rita Sherpa, also known as 'Everest Man', broke his own record by scaling Mount Everest for the 29th time. The 54-year-old cli...
12 May, 2024, 09.35 AM IST
Mountaineer Savita Kanswal clocks national record for scaling Mount Everest, completes 10 expeditionsHer expedition is backed by crowdfunding where hundreds of people contributed to support her.
06 Jun, 2022, 08.07 AM IST
Meet Keval Hiren Kakka, the Indian who scaled 2 of world's highest mountains in just six daysThe 28-year-old climber scaled two mountains above 8,000 metres, including the Mt.Everest.
21 May, 2019, 06.00 PM IST
- On 250th birthday, SOI wants to shed its cloak of secrecy
Till now a cumbersome paper trail was the only way to procure these maps and most of the data especially pertaining to the border regions a...
29 Jan, 2017, 02.22 PM IST
Trailer of 3D biography-disaster film 'Everest' releasedThe action-adventure movie, directed by Baltasar Kormakur, is based on the real-life 1996 story of a Mount Everest expedition that ended in...
09 Jun, 2015, 10.18 AM IST
Army calls back its Mount Everest expedition team post earthquake in NepalA 30-member mountaineering team of Indian Army, which was to scale the Mount Everest to mark the golden jubilee of the first Indian conques...
05 May, 2015, 05.24 PM IST
Nepal earthquake stirs debate on overcrowding and commercialisation of EverestThe deaths from avalanche at the Everest Base Camp have brought the spotlight back on over-commercialisation. The old debate will now be re...
03 May, 2015, 11.13 AM IST
Indian Army set to scale Mount Everest, to bring down tonnes of trashThe mountaineering team comprises of five officers, three JCOs and 22 other ranks and will be led by Major Ranbir Singh Jamwal.
10 Apr, 2015, 08.27 PM IST
Anshu Jamsenpa set to climb Mount EverestShe is likely to leave Arunachal on April 4 next for the Everest mission and would reach the Kathmandu base by April 6.
28 Mar, 2015, 02.32 PM IST
Women should have 'can do' attitude in life: Bachendri PalThe now retired mountaineer, who summited Mt Everest in 1984 was in the city to flag off an all women expedition to Kharta Valley in Tibet.
14 Sep, 2014, 03.10 PM IST
Joint Indo-Nepal effort to clean Mount EverestThe solid waste, including various goods used and discarded by mountaineers in course of their Everest expeditions.
28 May, 2013, 05.11 PM IST
- IPS officer climbs Everest, says divine energy helped
When IPS officer Atul Karwal was climbing the heights of Mount Everest last month, he felt as if a divine energy was helping him to overcom...
19 Jun, 2008, 03.33 PM IST