Mountaineer Piyali Basak from West Bengal stuck on Nepal's Mount Makalu, sherpa rescuedPiyali Basak, a Bengali mountaineer, is reportedly stuck on Mount Makalu (8,481m), the fifth-highest peak in the world. Basak has been stuc...
18 May, 2023, 12.03 PM IST
Indian climber Anurag Maloo fell into deep crevasse after he caught wrong rope: Sherpa guideAnurag is currently undergoing treatment at a Kathmandu hospital and has shown signs of improvement, his brother Ashish Maloo said. During ...
23 Apr, 2023, 11.02 PM IST
Indian climber pulled from crevasse in Nepal improvingAnurag Maloo had fallen into the crevasse while descending Mount Annapurna, the world's 10th highest, on April 17. After several attempts, ...
23 Apr, 2023, 07.39 PM IST
Missing Indian climber Anurag Maloo found alive in critical condition on Nepal's Mount AnnapurnaMaloo, 34, a resident of Kishangarh in Rajasthan, went missing on Monday after he fell from around 6,000 metres while descending from Camp ...
20 Apr, 2023, 03.51 PM IST
Indian mountaineer Baljeet Kaur found alive from Mt. Annapurna in NepalOn Monday, Anurag Malu, a resident of Kishangarh in Rajasthan, went missing while descending from Camp III of Mt. Annapurna. Later, it was ...
18 Apr, 2023, 02.06 PM IST
Private helicopter crashes in Nepal; pilot and passenger rescued: OfficialsAccording to Phurwa Sherpa of Heli Everest, the wreckage of the helicopter was located at 12:40 pm, and the pilot was safely rescued and tr...
09 Apr, 2023, 08.51 PM IST
India 'uniquely positioned' to help world bring on track for SDGs: UN officialAs India hosted the first Sherpa meeting under its G20 presidency, the UN Resident Coordinator for India Shombi Sharp said here that the re...
04 Dec, 2022, 08.26 PM IST
Indian climber among injured as avalanche hits Nepal's Mt ManasluThe Department of Tourism confirmed that the avalanche hit at 11:30 am on Monday. Indian climber Baljeet Kaur was among the injured, The Hi...
27 Sep, 2022, 12.33 AM IST
Why the only thing tougher than climbing Mt Everest is raising the fund for itThe cost of climbing the Everest starts from the time you start training 12-18 months before the climb. One cannot do it without being phys...
28 May, 2019, 05.44 PM IST
Avalanche hits Nepal peak; 5 South Koreans among 9 killedFive South Korean climbers including team leader Kim Chang-ho along with their Nepali support staff were killed in the incident, Sherpa sai...
13 Oct, 2018, 01.19 PM IST
Chopper crashes in Nepal; Japanese among 6 killed, woman survivesThe Altitude Air helicopter, AS350 B3e, which had gone missing, crash-landed in the forest area at Meghang Rural Municipality in Nuwakot di...
08 Sep, 2018, 08.03 PM IST
Body of Indian climber found on Everest, fourth fatality in a weekEverest has been climbed by over 7,300 people since 1953 when Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary made their pioneer...
27 May, 2016, 03.21 PM IST
Nepal earthquake: Army’s Mount Everest trek turns into rescue operationWhen the 7.9-magnitude quake struck, the soldiers and accompanying sherpas were on an acclimatization trek to Khumbhu icefall.
29 Apr, 2015, 10.57 AM IST
Nepal and China sign agreement to develop mountain tourismIn a bid to make mountaineering a safe profession, training and rescue techniques would also be exchanged between the nations, a joint stat...
19 Nov, 2014, 08.37 PM IST
ITBP mountaineer gets national sports award on National sports dayITBP trooper, part of rescue team of Uttarakhand rain tragedy operations, was given Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award on National spo...
30 Aug, 2014, 05.15 PM IST
Death toll in worst-ever Everest accident rises to 13Seven of the 12 bodies have been handed over to their families in the Everest region, while the other five were taken to Kathmandu.
19 Apr, 2014, 03.48 PM IST
- Quake toll mounts to 92; 3,000 people rescued in Sikkim
More than 3,000 people were rescued in quake-hit areas of Sikkim by defence forces which scrambled hard to clear debris.
20 Sep, 2011, 08.28 PM IST