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China to draw 'separation line' on peak of Mount Everest to curb Covid-19

China will draw a separation line atop Mount Everest to prevent the coronavirus from being spread by climbers ascending Nepal's side of the mountain, Chinese state media reported Monday.

Heights of nationalism

Book review of The World Beneath Their Feet: The British, the Americans and the Nazis and the Race to Summit the Himalayas

Nepali climbers 1st to scale K2, world's 2nd highest mountain, in winter

K2 with its daunting 8,611 meters height is located in Gilgit-Baltistan side of the Karakoram range. It was the only among 8,000-meter high peaks that was never scaled in winter

The politics and geography behind Mount Everest's new official height

The official height is now 8,848.86 metres, which is slightly less than a metre higher than the previous "official" figure

Mt Everest's joint measurement marks new milestone in Nepal ties: China

The world's highest peak is now taller by 86 centimetres, Nepal and China jointly announced on Tuesday after they remeasured Mt. Everest at 8,848.86 metres

How tall is tallest peak? Historical row over Mt Everest height explained

The revised height of Mt Everest puts an end to the decades-long dispute between Nepal and China. All you need to know about the controversy

Mt Everest is now 86 cms taller: Nepal, China announce revised height

According to the measurement done in 1954 by Survey of India, the height of Mt Everest was 8,848 metres.

World Coronavirus Dispatch: 85,000 cases on Friday mark third surge in US

UK considers shorter self-isolation period, crude oil Oilon surge in cases, why 2020 is different for student loan payments, and other pandemic-related news across the globe

Mount Everest summit success rates doubled over last 30 years, study finds

The researchers found that the overall death rate of around one per cent hasn't changed

The intellectual comfort blanket

Many professional Indian economists today, as well as others who know some economics, also now have such a blanket

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