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Topic: Mount Everest

At one point I thought I would die, says Mumbai man who survived Everest ‘traffic jam’

ThePrint speaks to Parth Upadhyay, 24, of Maharashtra, one of the climbers photographed in last month's viral photo of the Everest 'traffic jam'.

Liquor bottles & food cans among 11,000 kg of trash found on Mt Everest

A 14-member sherpa team that undertook the cleaning mission collected nearly 6,000 kg of trash on way to Base Camp and over 5,000 kg between Base Camp and Camp 4.

Opposition has BJP’s ‘Frankenstein’ to take on Modi and Everest’s ‘traffic jam’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Trail to Everest is littered with bodies. But no one will say who is actually responsible

Neither the people stuck in 'traffic jam' at Mount Everest nor the travel firms bothered to look back and learn from the incidents of 2012.

Mount Everest’s deadly toll has a commercial solution

Nepal should invite private sector to help manage Everest and other peaks. More commercialisation, not less, is the best route to promoting safety.

Everest traffic jam: Has climbing the highest mountain in the world lost its charm?

At least 11 people, including three Indians, have died on the Mount Everest this year with overcrowding at the highest peak proving to be a major concern.

Everest tourism is causing a mountain of problems every year

Nepal government does not really grasp what’s going on in the Himalayan peaks and must do more to make the mountainside sustainable.

Sherpa from Nepal summits Mt Everest for 23rd time & breaks his own record

Kama Rita Sherpa bettered his world record after he climbed Mt Everest for the 23rd time.

3,000 kg garbage collected from Mt Everest in two weeks

The 45-day Everest Cleaning Campaign began on April 14 and will conclude on May 29.

Imja Lake near Mt Everest is not a danger to Nepal, satellite images indicate

In 2016, Nepal drained the Imja Lake to a ‘safe level’, and ThePrint’s analysis reveals that today, it is no longer much of a threat to its people.

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Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.