Tag: Everest

London: UK-based scientists are set to travel to the Himalayas in a bid to become the first team to successfully drill through the world’s highest glacier, the media reported on Tuesday. The group from Aberystwyth University, Wales, will use a drill adapted from a car wash to cut into the Khumbu glacier in the foothills […]

By Dillip Pradhan Dhenkanal: She is a strong believer in destiny, but uncertainty looms large over her ambition to be the first Odia to scale all the highest peaks in all the continents of the world. Monetary constraints come in the way of her next two targets- Mount Vinson of Antarctica and Mount McKinley (also […]

Kathmandu: A total of 15 Indian nationals, stranded in Everest region for two days, on Saturday sought intervention of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to evacuate them and she has asked Indian Ambassador Manjeev Singh Puri to look into the matter. “Currently stranded in Lukla since two days, Nepal, with copter company looters refusing to […]

Kathmandu: The body of a 27-year-old Indian climber, who has been missing since Saturday on Everest, has been found after 36 hours of intense search. Ravi Kumar is the fifth person to die on Mt. Everest this season. With Kumar’s death, 45 people have lost their lives on the world’s highest peak in the last […]

New Delhi: Over 70 percent of the glacier volume in the Mount Everest region in the Himalayas could be lost in 85 years if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, a new research paper suggests. It also indicates more flood risk in the future in the Kosi river downstream from Nepal to India. The paper, […]