'Ladakh will be dealt with in Modi's third term.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Even an hour before midnight, the Udhampur station is bustling with passengers. Adding to the hubbub is a......
The five Mexican nationals killed in a helicopter crash in eastern Nepal near Mount Everest on Tuesday visited India before touring the Himalayan nation for sightseeing. IMAGE: People carry the......
May 29, 1953. A New Zealand beekeeper named Edmund Hillary and a Nepali sherpa named Tenzing Norgay became the first human beings to reach the top of the world -- the 29,035 foot Mount Everest, the......
A team of experienced international and national mountain guides on Tuesday retrieved the black box of the Tara Air plane that crashed in Nepal's mountainous Mustang district on Sunday, killing 22......
A 52-year-old Nepali Sherpa has climbed Mount Everest for the 26th time, bettering his own record for most number of times to scale the world's highest peak, expedition planners said on Sunday.......
IMAGE: Kami Rita Sherpa, 53, scaled the 8,849 metre (29,032-foot) mountain early along the traditional southeast ridge route, guiding a foreign climber. Photographs: Reuters A Nepali sherpa scaled......
Kami has already climbed most peaks above 8,000 metres, including K2, Cho-oyu, Lhoste and Annapurna among others. IMAGE: Kami, who had conquered the Everest for the 23rd time on May 15,......
'When I am at the top, I always feel I am blessed and closer to god.' IMAGE: Anshu Jamsenpa on Mount Everest. All photographs: Kind courtesy Tsering Wange/Facebook There is something unattainable......
Indian climbers banned from Nepal over fake Everest photos IMAGE: Police constables Tarakeshwari and Dinesh Rathod. Photograph: Facebook Nepal on Tuesday banned an Indian couple from mountain......
Phillip Hughes of Australia. Photograph: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images Chhurim Sherpa began her journey for a third ascent to Mount Everest on Sunday but this time some odd items were also part of her......