Seven members of elite NSG Commandos led by Lt Col Jay Prakash Kumar successfully scaled Mount Everest the highest peak on earth on 16 May 2019 at 0705 hrs.
On May 16, 2018, Kami Rita made history by summiting Everest for the 22nd time.
Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli called upon the government-nominated climbers to derive the true height of the peak. "It will be the authentic data regarding the height of the tallest peak once you come up with the report," Oli told the team members at the Prime Minister's Office here.
The new safety regulations also prohibit double amputee and blind climbers from attempting to reach the summit of the world's highest peak, the BBC reported on Saturday citing a Nepal Tourism Board official.
Nepal will, however, seek help from India and China for getting crucial data for the exercise, Nepal's Survey Department's Director General Ganesh Bhatta said.
Three months ago, the couple was asked to explain why they should not be dismissed from the force. The couple was posted at the police headquarters in Pune's Shivajinagar
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Paresh Chandra Nath, 58, and Gautam Gosh, 50, were missing from April 7 last year. Ravi Kumar, 27, died last week when he fell into a crevice after conquering Mount Everest.
A 27-year-old Indian climber, who went missing on Mount Everest, has died after he fell some 200 metres on his return after conquering the world's tallest peak.
An American climber has died and an Indian climber has gone missing on Mount Everest after successfully scaling the world's highest peak
Roland Yearwood, 50, from Georgiana, Alabama, died on the mountain on Sunday but other details were not immediately known.
Anshu unfurled the Indian Tricolor on the mountain's crest on May 16 at 9 a.m., and completed the feat for a second time at 7.45 a.m., on Sunday.
This couple tied the knots at a height of 17,600-feet at Mt. Everest
Min Bahadur Sherchan died at the Everest base camp on Saturday evening but the cause of death was not immediately clear, said Dinesh Bhattarai, chief of Nepal’s Tourism Department.
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.
In an attempt to regain the title of oldest Everest climber, a Nepali man is once again planning to climb the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak next month during a window of favorable weather on the summit, at age 85.
Weak mobile signal blues are now going to be a thing of past with the Nepalese government embarking on a drive to equip the region around the Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world,
Mumbai: Three weeks back, Maharashtra police constables Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod grabbed headlines after they claimed that they had conquered Mount Everest on May 23, becoming the first Indian couple to scale world's highest summit.
In 2011, the 26-year-old national level volleyball player from Lucknow lost one of her legs in a horrific accident when she was thrown off a moving train for resisting a chain-snatching attempt by hoodlums.
Kathmandu: Right from when they got married in 2008, this couple, both in the Maharashtra Police, dreamt of together ascending Mt. Everest, the tallest peak in the world, and even delayed becoming parents till they
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