Jamshedpur: Three moutaineers from Jharkhand on Saturday scaled the world's tallest peak, Mount Everest, Tata Steel sources said. Meghlal Mahato and Binita Soren, reached the summit at 6:50 am and Rajendra Singh Pal, brother of acclaimed mountaineer Bachendri Pal who trained them, reached the peak earlier at 4:40 am. The team had set out from Kathmandu on March 25 and chosen to trek from Jiri to Lukla to acclimatise the...
09:09 PM, May 26, 2012
Sydney: A 73-year-old Japanese woman on Saturday broke her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, a media report said. Tamae Watanabe reached Everest's 8,848-metre-high summit from the northern side of the mountain with four other team members, the Australian Associated Press (AAP) quoted Ang Tshering of the China Tibet Mountaineering Association as saying. Watanabe and the other team members were...
09:32 PM, May 19, 2012
Young mountaineer Arjun Vajpai, who climbed Mount Everest at the age of 16, is all set to climb Mt Cho Oyu (8201m) and Mt Shishapangma (8013m) in China this summer. ...
07:10 PM, Apr 07, 2012
London: A study in Britain has found that a lot of people are completely ignorant about some of the basic facts related to their country such as the highest mountain or even the names of nations comprising their country! The study found that more than one in five adult Briton lacked awareness about the nations comprising their country. Nearly six in 10 thought England's highest peak is Ben Nevis, Snowdon...
06:16 PM, Mar 12, 2012
London: Prince Harry, the third-in-line to the British throne, is all set to realise his long-held ambition of conquering Mount Everest this year, a report said. The 27-year-old Prince had dropped a broad hint about scaling the world's highest mountain in May this year at the end of his trek to the North Pole last year to raise money for 'Walking With the Wounded', a charity for wounded soldiers. Harry...
12:33 PM, Jan 01, 2012
Arjun Vajpai, the youngest Indian to climb Mount Everest in 2010, has now set another record by becoming the youngest mountaineer from Asia to scale Mt Manafai in Nepal. ...
09:28 AM, Oct 05, 2011
Kathmandu: The passenger plane carrying 19 people that went missing in Nepal crashed in Kathmandu on Sunday, killing all the people onboard. Out of the 16 tourists, 10 were Indians, said Apoorva Srivastava, the spokesperson of the Indian Embassy in Nepal. She also said that the Nepalese government has deployed two helicopters to carry out rescue operations and to bring back the bodies. She said that the weather was perfectly...
09:24 AM, Sep 25, 2011
Katmandu: Nepal's air rescue office has said that a plane carrying tourists to view Mount Everest is missing and has been out of contact with the control tower for more than an hour. The Beechcraft plane belonging to Buddha Air was carrying 16 foreign tourists and three crew members. It lost contact on Sunday on approach to the Katmandu airport. An official at the rescue center did not have any...
08:53 AM, Sep 25, 2011
Itanagar: For a long time, Arunachal Pradesh had trouble naming home-grown celebrities who could be immediately recognised by other states and beyond. There was Yukar Shibi, the weightlifter who set a new national record in the men's 62kg class, Gumpe Rime, the football player, author Mamang Dai who received the Padma Shri, and Yeshe Dorje Thongchi, Sahitya Akademi winner novelist. But there were no famed cricketers, film stars or even...
12:48 PM, Jul 08, 2011
The 32 year old mother of two became the first woman in the world to scale the mighty everest twice in one season. ...
08:32 AM, Jun 25, 2011
New Delhi: Premlata Agarwal is not just another woman who climbed Mt Everest - she is the mother of two married daughters. At 45, she is also the oldest Indian woman to scale the highest mountain in the world. What started off as an adventure in 2000 in the form of a hill climbing competition in Jamshedpur, ended at the altitude of more than 29000 feet. Premlata said, "When I...
09:17 AM, Jun 01, 2011
Dubai: Suzanne Al Houby, a Palestinian-born and UAE-based mother of two, has become the first Arab woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain. Originally from Jaffa, Palestine, 40-year-old Al Houby reached the 8,848-metre peak at 8:45 am on May 21, it was announced on Saturday. She spent 51 days scaling Mount Everest as part of a four-person team, three of whom successfully reached the summit....
10:30 AM, May 29, 2011
Kathmandu: A 16-year-old British schoolboy became the youngest person ever to climb the highest mountains on all seven continents when he ascended Mount Everest, the tallest of them, on Thursday, his organisers said. George Atkinson from Surbiton climbed the 8,850 metre (29,035 feet) Everest summit on Thursday from the Tibetan side of the mountain that abuts Nepal and China, British hiking group Adventure Peaks said on its website. Atkinson was...
11:01 AM, May 28, 2011
Veeraraghav and Suhasini Haidar talk to Arjun Vajpayi, the youngest Indian to climb Mount Everest, about the hardships of climbing Mount Lhotse. ...
10:38 PM, May 27, 2011
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