‘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.
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.
At the launch of his book on the Himalayas in Delhi, John Keay spoke of demon worship, mystical encounters and Europeans who didn’t understand local culture.
Before making it to Denali in North America, Ajeet and Deeya Bajaj were the first Indian parent-daughter team to unfurl the national flag at Mount Everest.
At the Press Club of India, it wasn't the author Bill Aitken launching his book 'Footloose in the Himalaya' but Hridayesh Joshi opening the pages of his first translated book.
Engineers working to set up the station said the meteorological system is of great significance for monitoring melting glaciers and mountain snow at high altitudes.
The 85-year-old, who passed away Friday, was part of India's first successful expedition to the Everest, but was wheelchair-bound soon after, following injuring received during 1965 India-Pak war.
The song was taken off YouTube a day after its release. But where was this energy when songs like Choli Ke Peeche & Fevicol Se came out? Those songs walked so this one could run.
Goldman Sachs last week cut its 2026 growth forecast by half a percentage point to 6.5% for the fiscal year starting April, and expects slower expansion due to India’s reliance on imported oil.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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