Tag: Mt Everest

Climbers report Covid cases on Mt Everest, Nepal official denies

Despite concerns about the outbreak, a large number of climbers have remained on the mountains.

May 25, 2021

‘Traffic jam’ on Mt Everest as 200 trekkers attempt to reach summit

The government issued a record number of 381 climbing permits to the mountaineers representing 44 teams this spring season.

May 23, 2019

Sherpas: The indomitable icefall doctors

The Sherpas are not medical science doctors, but they save hundreds of lives in the treacherous Khumbu icefall on Mt Everest by securing routes for mountaineers.

November 17, 2018

Odisha girl sets for Mt Everest journey

Kumari Swarnalata Dalai, a 20- year-old tribal girl from Kalinganagar, Odisha, is all set for her Mount Everest expedition in the coming weeks announced her sponsore Tata Steel Adventure Foundation. TSAF regularly conducts various trekking programmes and expeditions to peaks across the world. One such annual event is the prestigious Mount Everest expedition. For “Mission...

March 22, 2018

She climbs to conquer

At 10.00 am on 25 September 2017, Aparna Kumar reached the summit of Mt Manaslu, the 8th highest peak in the world and unfurled the tricolour to become the first Indian woman to scale this inhospitable mountain in Nepal. In 2016, she became the first woman IPS officer to scale the highest peak of the...

January 13, 2018

Six Indian climbers reach Mt Everest in first summit of season

Six Indian climbers on Saturday reached the top of Mt Everest, the world's highest mountain, becoming the first group to successfully summit the peak this season. The six Indian climbers and 10 Nepali Sherpas stood atop the 8,850-metre peak this morning, with the first climber reaching the summit at 8.20 am local time as others followed, said...

May 13, 2017

Nepal braces for ‘traffic jam’ at Mt Everest

Nepalese officials are bracing for a "traffic jam" at Mount Everest this season due to a surge in the number of climbers eyeing to conquer the world's tallest peak. This time, there would be around 400 climbers who will embark on the journey to scale the 8,848-metre-high Mt Everest from mid-May, according to the Department...

April 16, 2017