Russian climber Pavel Kostrikin died at Camp I of Mount Everest, the first reported death of a foreigner on the world's highest peak in the current climbing season that began in March, a Nepali official said on Sunday. Kostrikin, 55, died at the camp, which is located at an altitude of around 5,360 metres (17,585 feet) during a rotation on the 8,848-metre (29,031 feet) mountain on Saturday, said Bhishma Kumar Bhattarai, an official of Nepal's Department of Tourism. "The Russian climber fell sick at Camp II and died after being brought to the Camp I," Bhattarai told Reuters without giving further details. Camp II on the normal southeast ridge route on Everest is located at a height of around 6,400 metres (20,997 feet). Hiking officials said the body of Kostrikin would be br...
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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...
Read MoreA Nepali government official said on Monday that many foreign climbers were continuing their attempts to summit Mount Everest despite reports of a COVID-19 outbreak at the base camp of the world's tallest peak. In April, a Norwegian climber was evacuated from the base camp of the 8,848.86 metres (29,031.69 feet) mountain and flown to Kathmandu where he tested positive for COVID-19. He has since returned home. Lukas Furtenbach of the Austrian Furtenbach Adventures company, evacuated his team from the mountain this month saying there was a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases at the base camp. A group of climbers just before the Everest summit May 23, 2021. Photo: @danielmazur/Twitter "So far we have about one hundred confirmed cases in Everest base camp, confirmed by doctors, by hospit...
Read MoreMount Everest is higher than previously thought, Nepal and China said on Tuesday, settling a long-running conflict over the height of the world’s tallest peak that straddles their shared border. Kathmandu and Beijing had differed over its exact height but after each sent an expedition of surveyors to the summit they have agreed that the official height is 8,848.86 metres (29,031.69 feet), a bit more than their previous calculations. Everest is an “eternal symbol of ... friendship between Nepal and China,” said Nepali Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, announcing the findings of their surveys on a video call with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. Mount Everest, the world highest peak, and other peaks of the Himalayan range are seen through an aircraft window during a mountain ...
Read MoreMalavath Poorna is the youngest female in the world to reach the summit- Mt. Everest, a dream for all adventure seekers around the world. At 6.30 in the morning of 25th May 2014, she unfurled the Indian tricolour at the highest point on this planet. She was just 13 years and 11 months at that time. Born of a very poor family of agricultural labourers, Poorna is also the youngest Indian to reach the summit. In fact she was just one month older then the youngest person ever to climb the Mount Everest successfully, who was a US boy. A ninth standard student at Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Educational Institutions Society's school, Poorna struggled against all odds to be on top. Hailing from a background, where none of her villager folk have ever seen snow in their lives, Poorna achieved the...
Read Moreकुदरत जब अपनी खूबसूरती बिखेरती है तो सीमाएं नहीं देखती। यही बात उन निगाहों के लिए भी कही जा सकती है उस खूबसूरती का नजारा लेती हैं। हम यहां बात केवल देशों की सीमाओं की नहीं कर रहे, बल्कि धरती व आकाश की सीमाओं की भी कर रहे हैं। हिमालय ऐसी खूबसूरती से भरा पड़ा है। इस बार हम जिक्र कर रहे हैं संदकफू का जो पश्चिम बंगाल से सिक्किम तक फैली सिंगालिला श्रृंखलाओं की सबसे ऊंची चोटी है। नीला आसमान और बर्फ से लदी चोटियां संदकफू की ऊंचाई समुद्र तल से 3611 मीटर है। यहां जाने का रोमांच जितना इतनी ऊंचाई पर जाने से है, वहीं इस बात से भी है कि यह वो जगह है जहां से आप दुनिया की पांच सबसे ऊंची चोटियों में से चार को एक साथ देख सकते हैं। ये हैं दुनिया की सबसे ऊंची चोटी माउंट एवरेस्ट (8848 मीटर), तीसरे नंबर की और भारत में सबसे ऊंची कंचनजंघा (8585 मीटर), चौथे नंबर की लाहोत्से (8516 मी) और पांचवे नंबर की मकाल...
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