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Climbing Mount Everest and the evolving East-West relationship

Kathmandu: Within the last week, two Nepali mountaineers, Nirmal ‘Nims’ Purja and Lhakpa Sherpa, made the headlines, but for two different reasons. Purja climbed all 14 of the world’s above-8,000-metre peaks within a record 190 days. The next shortest time to achieve the same feat was 7 years 10 months

Autumn season climbing on Everest restarts after nine years

Solukhumbu, Oct 2 : Ten mountaineers from two groups have taken permission to climb Sagarmatha (Mt Everest) in this autumn

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Hundreds of tourists stranded for no alternative to air route

            Solukhumbu, Sept 16: Hundreds of foreign tourists have stranded at Lukla in Solukhumbu district owing to unfavourable weather condition

Everest expedition in autumn: 10 climbers ascent after nine years

Kathmandu, Sept 9: At least 10 climbers are preparing to make a bid to scale Everest this autumn, breaking a

High altitude, adverse weather behind Everest deaths: committee

Kathmandu: A committee formed to study the deaths of Mt Everest climbers has concluded that the deaths were not caused