Meanwhile, a British climber and a Nepali guide have been missing since Tuesday, after they slipped and fell in mountain’s ‘death zone’ where oxygen is very sparse.
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.
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.
If Rohini Godbole had a better collaborative environment, no doubt her name would have been in the mix for the JJ Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Using this technology, IDF carried out fully robotic combat missions, drastically reducing risk to Israeli troops. The robotic combat task force also enhanced situational awareness.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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