Despite traffic on Mount Everest, they conquered the peak
5 years, 6 months ago

Despite traffic on Mount Everest, they conquered the peak

Hindustan Times  

While going through your social media feed, you might have come across this bizarre viral photograph that shows a long queue of climbers at the peak of Mount Everest. Mount Everest adventure ka Olympic hai Main adventure ki khiladi hoon,” says Haryana Police sub-inspector Anita Kundu, who is scaling heights, quite literally. Mount Everest adventure ka Olympic hai!” This girl from Haryana fought an early marriage to become a mountaineer, and is shouldering her family’s responsibility today. “Jab bhi koi samasya aati thi, main unko yaad karke apne aap ko motivate karti rehti thi,” she says. Mention how a recent picture of a queue of climbers near the mountain top shocked many and Kundu says, “Yeh Nepal government ki sabse badi galti hai, anubhavheen logon ko permit diya.

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Everest, everywhere, all at once: What the peak is teaching us about attitudes and altitudes
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Everest, everywhere, all at once: What the peak is teaching us about attitudes and altitudes

Hindustan Times  

In 1998, the first civilian expedition to Everest set off from Mumbai. It’s definitely better climbing from Tibet,” says Kuntal Joisher, who has summited Everest from both sides, Nepal and Tibet, in different years. After that, my life didn’t change much,” he says, “simply because I didn’t want it to change.” Everest had always been the end in itself.. TAKE …

Indian climber dies as ‘human traffic jam’ on Mount Everest sparks overcrowding concerns
7 months, 1 week ago

Indian climber dies as ‘human traffic jam’ on Mount Everest sparks overcrowding concerns

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An Indian mountaineer has become …

Navy officer's daughter, 16, is youngest Indian to scale Mount Everest from Nepal side
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Navy officer's daughter, 16, is youngest Indian to scale Mount Everest from Nepal side

India Today  

A 16-year-old girl from Mumbai successfully scaled Mount Everest, becoming the youngest Indian mountaineer to scale the world's highest peak from the Nepal side, the Indian Navy said on Thursday. Kaamya Karthikeyan, a Class 12 student from Navy Children School in Mumbai, along with her father Cdr S Karthikeyan, embarked on their expedition to climb Mount Everest on April 3, …

Kenton Cool/Kami Rita Sherpa: Nepali and British climbers break their own records with successful Everest ascents
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Kenton Cool/Kami Rita Sherpa: Nepali and British climbers break their own records with successful Everest ascents

CNN  

CNN — A British climber and a Nepali guide have broken their own records for most climbs of Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain, hiking officials said on Sunday. Rakesh Gurung, director of Nepal’s Department of Tourism, said Britain’s Kenton Cool, 50, and Nepali guide Kami Rita Sherpa, 54, climbed the 8,849-meter peak for the 18th and 29th time, respectively. …

Last surviving member of the first team to conquer Mount Everest says it is crowded and dirty now
10 months, 1 week ago

Last surviving member of the first team to conquer Mount Everest says it is crowded and dirty now

Associated Press  

KATHMANDU, Nepal — The only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition that first conquered Mount Everest said Saturday that the world’s highest peak is too crowded and dirty, and the mountain is a god that needs to be respected. Kanchha Sherpa, 91, was among the 35 members in the team that put New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide …

Norwegian climber denies leaving dying guide behind to break world record at K2 peak
1 year, 4 months ago

Norwegian climber denies leaving dying guide behind to break world record at K2 peak

Hindustan Times  

Record-breaking Norwegian montaineer Kristin Harila denied the allegations that she and her team climbed over a dying guide to reach the K2 summit in Pakistan in a bid to become the world's fastest climber to climb all the peaks over 8,000 metres. Norwegian climber Kristin Harila, left, and her Nepali sherpa guide Tenjen Sherpa, right, who climbed the world's 14 …

‘Everest Man’: Nepalese Sherpa climbs summit for record 27th time
1 year, 7 months ago

‘Everest Man’: Nepalese Sherpa climbs summit for record 27th time

Al Jazeera  

Kami Rita reclaims his record after another Nepalese Sherpa tied it by reaching the Himalayan peak for the 26th time on Sunday. Nepalese climber Kami Rita Sherpa has reached the top of Mount Everest for the 27th time, reclaiming the record for the most summits of the world’s highest mountain, a government official and his hiking company said. “Yes, Kami …

Women’s Day 2023 Priyanka Mohite: No peak high enough
1 year, 10 months ago

Women’s Day 2023 Priyanka Mohite: No peak high enough

Hindustan Times  

From starting her mountaineering journey at a very young age to becoming the first Indian woman to scale five 8000ers, 30-year-old Priyanka Mohite’s sheer determination and hard work were instrumental in realising her mountaineering goals. Mountaineer Priyanka Mohite Mohite, who climbed Mt Everest at 20, recalls, “I became the first Indian woman to climb Mount Makalu, the world’s fifth-highest mountain, …

Meet Anita Kundu, a Haryana cop who scaled Mt Everest thrice
2 years ago

Meet Anita Kundu, a Haryana cop who scaled Mt Everest thrice

Live Mint  

Haryana Police inspector Anita Kundu has scaled Mount Everest thrice and is prepping hard for the next expedition in 2023. In 2017, I scaled Everest from the China side and in 2019, as the leader of an expedition, I again summited Everest," the 33-year-old inspector said. Kundu, who received the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award two years ago, said she …

How a 46-year-old Visually-impaired Chinese Climber Aims to Summit Mount Everest
3 years, 8 months ago

How a 46-year-old Visually-impaired Chinese Climber Aims to Summit Mount Everest

News 18  

Zhang Hong, a 46-year-old visually-impaired Chinese climber, is attempting to summit Mt.Everest this spring, a company organising his expedition said. Everest, he will be the first Asian visually-impaired person to scale the world’s tallest peak,” Dawa Steven Sherpa, chief executive officer of Asian Trekking, one of the leading expedition organising companies in Nepal, told Xinhua news agency on Friday. Earlier, …

Pakistan officials say 3 climbers missing on K2 are dead
3 years, 10 months ago

Pakistan officials say 3 climbers missing on K2 are dead

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Three mountaineers who went missing …

Odisha Mountaineer, Who Climbed Mt Everest, Beaten Up in Kalahandi District; Three Arrested
4 years, 3 months ago

Odisha Mountaineer, Who Climbed Mt Everest, Beaten Up in Kalahandi District; Three Arrested

News 18  

Noted mountaineer Jogabyasa Bhoi, who has scaled many peaks including the Mt Everest, was allegedly beaten up by a group of people at a village in Odisha’s Kalahandi district, police said on Tuesday. Three persons, including a boy, were held for attacking and injuring Bhoi with sticks and sharp objects when he had gone to Dahanramal village in the district …

Everest deaths: ‘Corners are being massively cut,’ says leading mountaineer Adrian Ballinger
5 years, 6 months ago

Everest deaths: ‘Corners are being massively cut,’ says leading mountaineer Adrian Ballinger

CNN  

CNN — An experienced mountaineer, Adrian Ballinger knows about the dangers of Everest better than most. “When you cut those things, I think you lose a lot of the decision-making ability that’s necessary when you have a holiday season like this one when conditions are really difficult,” says Ballinger. We constantly deal with what I would call low-grade suffering, almost …

Is Mount Everest getting crowded?
5 years, 6 months ago

Is Mount Everest getting crowded?

The Hindu  

A photograph shared by Nirmal Purja, a Nepalese mountaineer, showing hundreds of mountaineers queuing up to summit Everest recently turned the world’s attention to the crowding at the peak. I passed over 80 people in that stretch.” A narrower ‘good weather window’, a record 381 permits issued by the Nepal government and the fact that every hiker had to be …

Black Africans must pick up Everest challenge, says landmark climber
5 years, 7 months ago

Black Africans must pick up Everest challenge, says landmark climber

The Hindu  

The first black African woman to climb Everest said Thursday that people from her continent must seek “amazing” new challenges to prove they can compete with the best. “There are many places still, unfortunately if you think about it, that we still haven't broken through,” Saray Khumalo told AFP in an interview after conquering the world's highest peak. “So it …

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