Himalayas – आवारा मुसाफिर

Mountaineer “Nims” sets three new world records in just five days

October 12, 2024190 Views

On 4th October 2024 the British-Nepali mountaineer, former Gurkha and UKSF, stood on the summit of Shishapangma with legendry Nepali climber Mingma G and his rope fixing team. They both completed their missions to climb the 14 Peaks without supplementary oxygen. Nims becomes the fastest person to climb all the 14 Peaks without any supplementary oxygen in 2 years 4 months and 28 days – whilst leading and guiding clients, as well as the fastest (and only) person to achieve the 14 peaks feat both with and without oxygen, in just 5 years, 5 months and 12 days (23rd April 2019 to 4th October 2024). Nimsdai on Shishapangma on Oct 4th 2024 where he completes his 14 Peaks No O2 mission in record time. Credit Nimsdai He then returned with a summit plan of October ...

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Hidden ice melting in Himalayas

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April 4, 2023885 Views

Study reveals 'invisible' glacier loss underwater A new study reveals that the mass loss of lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya has been significantly underestimated, due to the inability of satellites to see glacier changes occurring underwater, with critical implications for the region's future projections of glacier disappearance and water resources. Published in Nature Geoscience on April 3, the study was conducted by an international team including researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Graz University of Technology (Austria), the University of St. Andrews (UK), and Carnegie Mellon University (USA). FILE PHOTO: People walk past a destroyed dam after a Himalayan glacier broke and crashed into the dam at Raini Chak Lata village in Chamoli distric...

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दारमा के दर पर पहली बर्फबारी का रोमांच!

JAIMITRA BISHT

December 12, 20221150 Views

बर्फ की पहली दस्तक से ढकी दारमा घाटी के पंचाचूली ट्रेक पर जाने की इच्छा तो कई सालों से थी पर यह चाह अब जाकर पिछले महीने नवंबर 2022 में पूरी हुई। ऐसा नहीं है कि मैं पहली बार था पंचाचूली ट्रेक पर जा रहा था। इससे पहले 2002 और फिर 2015 में बला की खूबसूरत पंचाचूली चोटियों के दर्शन दारमा के दर से हो गए थे। पर इस बार यह पहला मौका था कि जाड़ों में नवम्बर के महीने में हम दारमा जा रहे थे। हिमालय के इतना नजदीक जाने का आनंद ही कुछ और है। फोटोः जयमित्र सिंह बिष्ट यह एक ऐसा सपना था जिसकी कल्पना मैं हमेशा से करता था और चाहता था, प्यारी पंचाचूली को, उसके बर्फ से ढके बुग्यालों, जम चुके पानी के धारों और रास्तों के साथ अपने कैमरे और दिल में कैद करना। हालांकि ऐसा नहीं है कि सिर्फ फोटो लेना ही मेरा उद्देश्य होता है पर लेंस के थ्रू आप जब हिमालय को निहारते हैं तो वह अनुभव आपको एक अलग ही अनुभूति देता है...

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As Himalayan glaciers melt, a water crisis looms in South Asia

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October 8, 2022883 Views

Warmer air is thinning most of the vast mountain range’s glaciers, known as the Third Pole because they contain so much ice. The melting could have far-reaching consequences for flood risk and for water security for a billion people who rely on meltwater for their survival. Spring came early this year in the high mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan, a remote border region of Pakistan. Record temperatures in March and April hastened melting of the Shisper Glacier, creating a lake that swelled and, on May 7, burst through an ice dam. A torrent of water and debris flooded the valley below, damaging fields and houses, wrecking two power plants, and washing away parts of the main highway and a bridge connecting Pakistan and China. Pakistan’s climate change minister, Sherry Rehman, tweeted vide...

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Supermountains controlled the evolution of life on Earth

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February 5, 2022337 Views

Giant mountain ranges at least as high as the Himalayas and stretching up to 8,000 kilometres across entire supercontinents played a crucial role in the evolution of early life on Earth, according to a new study by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU). The researchers tracked the formation of these supermountains throughout Earth’s history using traces of zircon with low lutetium content -- a combination of mineral and rare earth element only found in the roots of high mountains where they form under intense pressure. The study found the most giant of these supermountains only formed twice in Earth's history -- the first between 2,000 and 1,800 million years ago and the second between 650 and 500 million years ago. Both mountain ranges rose during periods of...

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Climate change impacts the highest reaches of the Earth

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February 4, 20221156 Views

Everest glacier is losing decades worth of ice every year Melting and sublimation on Mount Everest’s highest glacier due to human-induced climate change have reached the point that several decades of accumulation are being lost annually now that ice has been exposed, according to a University of Maine-led international research team that analyzed data from the world’s highest ice core and highest automatic weather stations. The extreme sensitivity of the high-altitude Himalayan ice masses in rapid retreat forewarns of quickly emerging impacts that could range from increased incidence of avalanches and decreased capacity of the glacier stored water on which more than 1 billion people depend to provide melt for drinking water and irrigation. South Col Glacier ice core (8220 m) (red...

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Everest climbers struggle to return home amid Nepal COVID-19 travel curbs

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June 2, 20211321 Views

Climbers returning from Mount Everest and other Himalayan peaks are struggling to find a return flight back home after Nepal banned most air travel to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases, mountaineering operators and hikers said on Wednesday. Most regular international flights are closed through June as a deadly second wave of the coronavirus hit the Himalayan nation tucked between China and India. Nepal issued 742 permits – 408 of those to climbers aspiring to make it to the top of the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest – in the April-May climbing season. And hundreds of climbers are now returning from the mountains before the onset of annual monsoon rains. Tashi Lakpa Sherpa, a senior official at Kathmandu-based private firm Seven Summit Treks, said climbers were finding it ...

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Real-time monitoring of Himalayan glaciers can be helpful

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April 22, 20211094 Views1

Satellite-based real-time monitoring of Himalayan glacial catchments would improve understanding of flood risk in the region and help inform an early flood warning system that could help curb disaster and save human lives, says a recent study. This should be the future strategy to reduce loss of human lives during glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF), said a study carried out by scientists from IIT Kanpur. The study carried out by Dr. Tanuj Shukla and Prof. Indra Sekhar Sen, Associate Professor from IIT Kanpur, with support from the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, has been published in the international journal ‘Science’. FILE PHOTO: People walk past a destroyed dam after a Himalayan glacier broke and crashed into the dam at Raini Chak Lata village in Cha...

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Rising heat and snow-bare peaks chill Nepal’s mountain tourism

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February 9, 2021862 Views

Over the 12 years that Baburam Giri has worked as a hotel cook in the village of Dhampus - a major tourist draw with its views of the towering Annapurna mountain range - winters have become less snowy. “The snowfall we had five years ago was more than 2 feet deep - but we didn’t have significant snowfall after that,” lamented Giri, standing at his stove at the Hotel Yama Sakura. With hotels across the world feeling the financial pain of travel restrictions to curb the coronavirus pandemic, Giri said his central Nepal community was relying mainly on Nepali tourists, who come every year drawn by the wintry weather. But this year, the bare ground means few visitors. “Many domestic and local tourists come to this area to play in the snow whenever there is snowfall,” Giri told ...

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सोलंग में रुमानियत

BIRBAL SHARMA

February 8, 20211236 Views

देश-दुनिया के सैलानियों के आकर्षण का केंद्र ही कुल्लू घाटी में पसरी बर्फ। इसलिए मनाली से रोहतांग तक पर्यटकों की आमद यहां लाखों लोगों के रोजगार का जरिया बन जाती है। बर्फ मानो चांदी की बरसात लेकर आती है। बसंत के बाद मैदानों की तपिश जैसे-जैसे बढ़ने लगती है, देश भर का पर्यटक इससे कुछ निजात पाने के लिए पहाड़ों की ओर रुख करने लगता है। ज्यों ज्यों मैदान ज्यादा गर्म होने लगते हैं त्यों त्यों पर्यटकों का यह रेला बढ़ता जाता है, मगर फिर जैसे ही मानसून दस्तक दे देता है तो यह सिलसिला एकदम से रुक जाता है, पूरी घाटी सूनी हो जाती है। यहां की खूबसूरती मन मोहने वाली है लेकिन बदलते हालात में अब पर्यटकों की पसंद भी बदलने लगी है और वह जहां गर्मी से निजात पाने के लिए पहाड़ों की ओर रुख करते हैं, वहीं उनकी पसंद बर्फ पर कूदना, भागना, गिरना, पड़ना, फिसलना, उड़ना और अठखेलियां करना भी हो गया है। बर्फ के फाह...