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Topic: Mountaineer

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.

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

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.