By shutting down the passage through the south route of Everest, the Nepal government stands to lose some $4 million in permits alone
A skydiving expedition culminates in two oxygen-supplemented jumps from the 'Roof of the World'
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
The boom in commercial adventure sports means 'real' mountaineers are often outnumbered by tourists whose ambitions exceed their climbing skills
Nine people have died on the Nepalese side of the mountain so far this year, the deadliest climbing season on the peak since 2015
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
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.
The measurement expeditions have typically excluded experts from Nepal
The cabinet late Friday endorsed a revision to the Himalayan nation's mountaineering regulations
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
Four climbers are Kunchok Tenda, Kelshang Dorjee Bhutia, Kalden Panjur, Sonam Phuntsok
With this, total number of people who died from Nepal side of Mount Everest has reached five
The 32 year old mountaineer hails from Arunachal Pradesh
Students were picked from social welfare and tribal welfare residential schools for training
More than 3,000 people have scaled Mt Everest since 1953
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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