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From top to bottom line: Mt Everest closure means financial hit for Sherpas

By shutting down the passage through the south route of Everest, the Nepal government stands to lose some $4 million in permits alone

Everest skydiving: The $25,000 alternative to climbing the tallest mountain

A skydiving expedition culminates in two oxygen-supplemented jumps from the 'Roof of the World'

Google honours mountaineer Junko Tabei with doodle on her 80th birthday

Google on Sunday honoured Junko Tabei, the first Japanese woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on her 80th birthday with a cool animated doodle.She is also the first woman to ascend all Seven Summits by climbing the highest peak on every continent.The doodle depicts a graph along with seven ice-capped mountains which symbolise all the "seven summits"--the highest peaks such as Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro, Vinson, Elbrus, Puncak Jaya, on each continent that was climbed by Tabei.Apart from the mountains, the doodle also shows a moving animated cartoon representing Tabei.Google in its notes stated that Tabei kept her passion and dream to scale new heights alive even while battling with peritoneal cancer in 2012.Born on September 22 in 1939, Tabei was raised in Miharu, a small town in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture. She explored the joy of climbing at the age of 10 during a class trip to Mount Nasu. Though she was the first woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest, Tabei

5 tons garbage collected from Mount Everest

Kathmandu (Nepal), May 09 (ANI): A total of 5,000 kg garbage collected from Mount Everest by a clean-up team deployed by Nepali authorities on 14th April. The Nepal Army also is lending a hand in clean-up campaign launched on Mt Everest and it is being monitored by Tourism Department of Nepal. Some of the wastes has been collected and airlifted and the collection of the leftover garbage is underway. It will be sent out for recycling. Several organizations and commercial groups have also funded the clean-up campaign. > >

23-year-old girl from Pithoragarh becomes youngest woman to scale Mount Everest

Pithoragarh (UK), May 17 (ANI): A 23years old, mountaineer Sheetal Raj has become one of the youngest women to scale Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world.In 2018, Raj, who hails from Pithoragarh district, had scaled Kanchenjunga peak, thus becoming the youngest Indian woman to scale the world's third highest peak.Uttarakhand's Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat congratulated Sheetal on his Twitter page. He tweeted "This is a proud moment. A daughter of Uttarakhand has scaled both Mount Everest and Kanchenjunga at a very young age."Sheetal Raj's father, who is driver by profession said, "We had watched this in television only, that there is something called Mount Everest." >

Death on Everest: The boom in climbing tourism is dangerous, unsustainable

The boom in commercial adventure sports means 'real' mountaineers are often outnumbered by tourists whose ambitions exceed their climbing skills

Summit fever: Everest's budget climbing boom puts Indians most at risk

Nine people have died on the Nepalese side of the mountain so far this year, the deadliest climbing season on the peak since 2015

Everest gets deadly: private sector should manage it to improve safety

The world's highest mountain is experiencing one of its deadliest climbing seasons on record. Letting the private sector manage it would reduce overcrowding and improve safety

British, Irish climbers latest casualties, take overall Everest toll to 10

A traffic jam of climbers in the Everest "death zone" has been blamed for at least four of the deaths, heightening concerns that the drive for profits is trumping safety.

How tall is Mount Everest? For Nepal, it's a touchy question

The measurement expeditions have typically excluded experts from Nepal

Planning to scale Mt Everest? Go in group, Nepal just banned solo climbers

The cabinet late Friday endorsed a revision to the Himalayan nation's mountaineering regulations

Chronicling a solemn descent from Mt Everest: Deliverance from 27,000 feet

Two mountain climbers died near the top of Mount Everest in 2016. Their bodies lay frozen there for a year. Then a journey began to bring them home

In a first, Indian Army men climb Mt Everest without using oxygen cylinders

Four climbers are Kunchok Tenda, Kelshang Dorjee Bhutia, Kalden Panjur, Sonam Phuntsok

Mount Everest: Missing UP man dies after falling from 8,200 metres altitude

With this, total number of people who died from Nepal side of Mount Everest has reached five

Anshu Jamsenpa becomes first Indian woman to climb Mt. Everest four times

The 32 year old mountaineer hails from Arunachal Pradesh

Six Andhra Pradesh students scale Mount Everest, despite humble roots

Students were picked from social welfare and tribal welfare residential schools for training

Nepal braces for 'traffic jam' at Mt Everest amid surge in climbers number

More than 3,000 people have scaled Mt Everest since 1953

Breakfast at the Everest base camp

The easiest way to see the world's most famous mountain

Indian Army mountaineering team scales Mt Everest

The team, led by Lt Col Jamwal, a reputed climber, was at the Everest base camp last year when a 7.9 magnitude earthquake stuck Nepal