Mt Everest News

Today the whole world is celebrating World Environment Day. After the earth and the river, humans have started playing with the mountains as well. A video of Everest's base camp has gone viral on social media. In which some climbers' tents are visible.

The girl had gone to the base camp with 'Satori Adventures', which is a Nepal-based company along with a group of Kutch trekkers.

Researchers have found that plant life is growing and expanding around Mount Everest and across the Himalayan region as the area continues to experience the consequences of global warming. According to the study, published in the journal Global Change Biology, research team from University of Exeter in UK, used satellite data to measure the extent of subnival vegetation - plants growing between the treeline and snowline - in this vast area.

Indian climber Kalpana Das, 49, reached the summit, but died on Thursday afternoon while descending as a large number of climbers queued near the top. She was a member of the "Three Women Expedition", Gyanendra Shrestha, a liaison officer at the Everest base camp was cited as saying by the Himalayan Times.

The 49-year-old mountaineer from Odisha died on Thursday while descending from the peak.

Arunima Sinha is the first female amputee to scale Mount Everest.

Athlete Arunima Sinha has said that she mocked for her disability at the famed Mahakal Temple in Ujjain. Apparently, the refusal of the temple authorities was over the clothes she was wearing. Arunima is the first amputee to climb Mount Everest.

Toothill was diagnosed with bowel cancer in June 2015 and told that he might have only four months to live.  

According to the expedition organisers, 52-year-old Sangeeta S Bahl, who hails from Jammu and Kashmir, Argentine climbers Andres Esteban Pariz and Ricardo Dario Birn were airlifted from Camp II.

Tamang also carried a banner through her arduous trek that read, "we are people, not property".

A 44-year-old Nepalese mountaineer has broken her own world record for the most Everest summits by a woman after scaling the world's tallest peak for the eighth time.

A team from Indian Navy is all set for an expedition to the Mt. Everest, the world`s tallest mountain peak once again.

Actor Amit Sadh loves climbing and wants to scale Mount Everest for which he has already begun preparations. At the age of six, Amit started rock climbing and spent most of his childhood in hills trekking.

The two climbers had claimed to be the first Indian couple to have reached the top of the world's highest peak.

Justice JB Pardiwala, while disposing of a petition, noted that all school textbooks give the credit for the Mahatma title of Gandhi to Tagore.

Using satellite technology, researchers found that the Himalayas subsided by up to 60 cm after the April 2015 Nepal earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people.