Local guides & shepherds joined authorities to help rescue all stranded hikers from the isolated Karma valley after a blizzard, making it one of the largest search-and-rescue operations in the area.
‘We often focus only on success, but this book is about failure and not giving up,’ said author and mountaineer Samir Patham at the launch of his new book, What’s Your Everest, in New Delhi.
The 29 year old hailing from a remote village in Himachal Pradesh recently hoisted the Tricolour atop the highest mountain peak in the world, becoming the 5th person ever to do so.
The 35-year-old has undertaken specialised training in mountaineering and is also the first and fastest woman to climb five peaks in Ladakh's Rupshu region in just three days.
A hundred years after the most important Everest expedition in history, a group of mountaineering experts in Delhi got together to analyse the changing reasons behind exploring the peak.
In 1999, Mallory’s mummified body was retrieved from the ice, with signs of injuries suggesting he was killed in a fall. The body of his climbing partner Sandy Irvine was never found.
Tinkesh Kaushik lost both his limbs and a hand at 9 years of age in an electrocution accident in Haryana. Kaushik uses prosthetic limbs and has been working as a fitness coach in Goa.
Meanwhile, a British climber and a Nepali guide have been missing since Tuesday, after they slipped and fell in mountain’s ‘death zone’ where oxygen is very sparse.
The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.
If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.
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