A giant projection of the NASA Mars 2020 mission logo on the north face of the Eiger mountain (left), NASA logo on the Monch mountain (center) and and astronaut on the Jungfrau mou...
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The all-Nepalese mountaineering team that became the first to scale Mount K2 in winter cheer as they arrive at Tribhuwan International airport in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Advance and Basic Mountaineering Courses held at Mountaineering and Skiing Institute at Auli, in Chamoli district. About 100 ITBP personnel were trained in basic and advanced mount...
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A view of Namgyal Palace in the backdrop of monsoon clouds looming in the sky, in Leh.
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In this aerial photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, vehicles and tents are seen at the base camp at the foot of the peak of Mount Qomolangma, also known as Mount Everest, ...
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Mountaineers Tashi Malik and Nungshi Malik receive 'Nari Shakti Puraskar 2019' on International Women's Day from President Ram Nath Kovind as Union Minister Smriti Irani looks on, ...
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Kaamya Karthikeyan, a class 7 student of Navy Children School from Mumbai became the youngest girl in the world to summit Mt Aconcagua at 6962 m, the highest peak in South America ...
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A hiker plays his accordion with view of Wildlake and the Pizol glacier on the sideline of a commemoration for the 'dying' glacier of Pizol mountain, pictured in the background, in...
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A climber stops to take pictures of clouds while climbing towards the summit of Mount Fuji to watch the sunrise in Japan.
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This photo released by Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) shows Indian paramilitary personnel carry one among seven bodies believed to be from a missing team of international climbe...
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A view of the Nanda Devi and Nanda Devi East twin peak as seen from near Pindari Valley in the Bageshwar district, in this photo dated April 2005.
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NCC cadets carry the remains Indian mountaineer Dipankar Ghosh, who died while returning from the Mount Makalu summit, during his funeral, in Howrah.
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In this photo made on May 22, 2019, a long queue of mountain climbers line a path on Mount Everest. About half a dozen climbers died on Everest last week most while descending from...
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Indian climber Ameesha Chauhan who survived dangerous overcrowding on Mount Everest gets treatment at a hospital after she was rescued in Kathmandu. Seasoned mountaineers say the N...
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In this file photo, Nepalese veteran Sherpa guide, Kami Rita, 48, waves as he arrives in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Sherpa mountaineer extended his record for successful climbs of Mount...
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Mountaineer Ramesh Roy greets his family members on reaching the airport in Kolkata.
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A helicopter carrying dead bodies of two Indian mountaineers arrives at Teaching hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. Two mountaineers died on Nepal's famous Himalayan peaks, while anothe...
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White Gold
Kashmiri trekkers in Sonmarg area
Pristine Bowl
Trekkers go past the Tarsar lake in Kashmir
The wreckage debris of a US-WWII warplane C-53 Skytrooper Dakota that crashed in 1946, pictured on the Gauli Glacier in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland. The hot temperatures of the l...
‘We did it, believe me we did it,’ expedition’s team leader Chhang Dawa wrote on Facebook, ‘The Karakorum's Savage Mountain been summited in most dangerous season: winter.’
The revised height of Mt. Everest puts an end to the decades-long dispute between the two neighbours on the height of the world's tallest mountain that straddles their shared border
75 mountaineers were to finish their training two days after the India lockdown was declared on March 24 and return to their respective places with the certificates, but little did they know they will be in a real-life 'HMI 21 Days Big Boss Challenge'
Lipika Biswas says she will interact with people and encourage them to take to cycling, which is a pollution-free sustainable alternative to other modes of transport in today's world.
Eight mountaineers had set out on an expedition of the 7,434-metre-high peak, but were reported missing on May 25, the day they were to reach their base camp. One of them is still missing.
'This is possibly the first time that bodies will be retrieved from a height of about 20,000 feet from a mountain peak in India,' ITBP spokesperson Vivek Kumar Pandey said.
The tawdry reasons behind Indian climbers faking summits of Mt Everest and the alarming loopholes in the system that enable them to tell the tallest of tales
From a 99-year-old's 29th expedition trip to the Himalayas to Leh's solution to deal with mountain of waste, read this and much more in The Subcontinental Menu.
The local interest around trekking caught on from 2004-2005 and since then, several locals have been trekking in different mountain ranges in the Valley.
Why members of India's archery squad are required to visit crematoria at night to Bombay High Court's 'Baywatch' reference on need to adopt modern means. Read this and much more in this week's The Subcontinental Menu.