According to Nepal investigators, guides secretly fed baking soda to induce severe illness among foreigners, causing gastrointestinal distress mimicking altitude sickness.
‘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.
Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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