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TopicMount Everest

Topic: Mount Everest

Helicopter with six aboard goes missing near Mount Everest area in Nepal

The passengers are reported to be five Mexican nationals, whose identities have yet to be disclosed and pilot senior captain Chet B Gurung.

Nepali Sherpa saves Malaysian climber in rare Everest ‘death zone’ rescue

Gelje Sherpa, 30, hauled the climber 600m (1,900 feet) down from the Balcony area to the South Col, over a period of about 6 hours, where Nima Tahi Sherpa, another guide, joined the rescue.

Renowned US mountaineer climbs rare Everest ‘triple crown’

Garrett Madison, 44, has achieved the rare Everest region 'triple crown', climbing three peaks - Mount Everest, Lhotse and Nuptse - in one season.

Nepali Sherpa reaches Mount Everest summit for 28th time, completes his 2nd ascent in a week

Nepali tourism official Bigyan Koirala said, Kami Rita Sherpa, 53, reached 29,032-feet summit by traditional southeast ridge route, following his 27th climb last week.

Nepali sherpa scales Mount Everest for 27th time, beats his own record

Kami Rita Sherpa, 53, scaled the 8,849 metre – 29,032-foot – mountain early Wednesday morning along traditional southeast ridge route, guiding a foreign climber.

Even Imran Khan can’t eclipse the success of two Pakistani mountaineers who scaled Everest

Sajid Sadpara and Naila Kiani scaled the world’s highest peak on Sunday. Sadpara did so without supplementary oxygen.

Three Nepali sherpa climbers go missing on Everest after avalanche

Three guides who were ferrying climbing gear for their clients were caught at an unspecified site between the Base Camp and Camp I on its lower parts.

Stop Everest obsession, Himalayas are vulnerable — British historian urges in new book

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.

Everest to Denali—Asia’s first father-daughter to climb seven summits thrive on adventure

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.

Hridayesh Joshi’s Aitken ka Himalaya — ‘books are not translated, they find translators’

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.

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Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

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.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

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.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

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.