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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
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Topic: mountaineering

Six years of failure & a near-death experience—How 2 Indian mountaineers conquered Everest

‘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.

Mount Everest now a bucket list item. There are no George Mallories, Andrew Irvines anymore

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.

Amputee Tinkesh Kaushik scaled Everest base camp. Give state funds for disabled in adventure

Rather than just allocating huge sums to already well-compensated sports stars, state governments should also create a public fund to support athletes with disabilities.

‘9-10 could have died’—Abandoned by firms, Himachal trekkers escape Sahastra Tal-like tragedy

Travel firms Byko Journeys, Trekyaari, Trekkers of India, and Mad Trekkers have 'initiated refunds' after leaving a group of 120 people trekking to Hampta Pass in Himachal Pradesh's Spiti Valley to fend for themselves.

There’s a boom in senior citizens climbing the Himalayas. Risk evaluation is the first step

Senior citizens are constantly under pressure to gracefully recede from the public eye and retire. But mountaineers and trekkers in their 60s and 70s are questioning this view.

How Uttarakhand trekking turned adventure into tragedy—cost-cutting, scant resources

An adventure trip is curated with terrain and domain knowledge and planning is a critical part of the exercise. In Uttarakhand's case, the Karnataka Mountaineering Association seemed to be too ambitious.

‘Indians willing to bargain lives for cheap treks’—trekking companies have no govt oversight

Droves of Indians are turning to the mountains to escape city life. It’s resulted in a boom in fly-by-night operations that function outside existing regulations.

The world’s most famous headstand in 1951 was by a teacher on the snow-capped Himalayas

Gurdial Singh’s iconic headstand at the Trisul summit started ‘the age of mountaineering for Indians.’ The geography teacher inspired many to love mountains and nature.

30-year-old Indian becomes world’s 1st triple amputee to reach Mount Everest base camp

Tinkesh Kaushik lost both his limbs and a hand at 9 years of age in an electrocution accident in Haryana. Kaushik uses prosthetic limbs and has been working as a fitness coach in Goa.

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.

On Camera

India has 30 days to pull off fast reform. Hold crash meeting of Centre & state

In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world moves fast.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.