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Topic: Mountaineer

Geeta Samota becomes first paramilitary CISF personnel to scale Mount Everest

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.

Spotted vultures, scaled 400-ft cliff — how ITBP found, retrieved US paraglider’s body in Spiti Valley

Probe & rescue ops, conducted over days, involved traditional sleuthing, use of drones & climbing a sharp cliff face 'perpendicular to mountain base' to retrieve body of Trevor Bockstahler.

‘Mt Annapurna’s baby’, Anurag Maloo is ready to climb again, a year after avalanche & coma

‘Now I remember when I took my first step, when I climbed my first stairs, when I ate food for the first time from my hands, when I wrote for the first time in the hospital,’ said Maloo.

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.

Rescued mountaineer Anurag Maloo moves from Nepal to Delhi for further treatment, family relieved

Rescued from Mt Annapurna in Nepal last month, Maloo has been brought to Delhi for treatment at AIIMS. His vitals are stable, but will continue receiving treatment for frostbite.

10 mountaineering students killed in avalanche in Uttarkashi, search on for missing 11

8 from the group have been rescued; the budding mountaineers were on their way to scale Draupadi’s Danda 2 peak at 18,000 feet.

Tapi Mra, first Arunachalee to conquer Mount Everest, goes missing in snow-capped Kyarisatam

Tapi went missing 7 days ago since he went on an official mission to explore Mount Kyarisatam, one of Arunachal’s highest peaks.

Shehroze Kashif in Guinness Records is the pride of Pakistan—youngest to scale Everest, K2

The 19-year-old from Lahore was also the youngest Pakistani to scale Everest on 6 May this year.

On Camera

Trump’s 28 points for Ukraine add up to a no-go at peace

Two questions are pertinent: Why does the Trump administration keep making the same mistakes on the peace proposal? And what does a hurried peace plan mean on the ground?

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas fighter aircraft crashes at Dubai Air Show, IAF confirms pilot’s death

This is the second such incident after a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas had crashed into a hostel on the outskirts of Jaisalmer in March last year.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.