Page 37 - Manaslu News Today

KATHMANDU — US climber Hilaree Nelson’s death has brought home how treacherous the Himalayas are, dangers that guides and experts say are rising due to climate change and as more people seek high-altitude thrills.Nelson, 49, was fatally swept down from close to the peak of the 8,163-metre Manaslu, the world’s eighth-highest mountain that she and her partner were attempting to

KATHMANDU — Since time immemorial it has inspired the legend of the Yeti. Said to be massive, ferocious and voracious — especially for horse flesh — it’s a creature you hope never to encounter, nomadic families in Nepal’s Mustang region told conservation researcher Madhu Chetri 20 years ago. It was 2002, and Chetri had been […]

A Taiwanese mountaineers record-breaking claim of speed summiting a giant Himalayan peak is now under a g...

Mingma Wangdi Sherpa, a member of the Nepali rope-fixing team on Ama Dablam, died attempting to summit.

I did it two months after scaling Everest and two weeks before standing on top of G2, completing three peaks over 8,000 metres in one season

I did it two months after scaling Everest and two weeks before standing on top of G2, completing three peaks over 8,000 metres in one season

'Goddess of Mountaineering' faces questions over Manaslu climb claims, fundraising account frozen | 2022-10-17 13:46:00

Famed mountaineer Nirmal 'Nims' Purja was involved in a tragic parachuting accident that claimed the life of his instructor, Dean Waldo, on Oct .14. Now, Purja outlines some of what happened.

Paul Gurung ANN/KATHMANDU POST – After walking for three days, I finally reached the village of Tipling. My birthplace, Ruby Valley’s Chalish village, was now only an hour’s walk. This was my first trip back home in more than four years. Unlike my previous trips, I had both professional and personal reasons for making this […]

DEHRADUN, INDIA (AFP) – Rescuers stepped up efforts yesterday to find around 20 people still missing 48 hours after an avalanche in the Indian Himalayas claimed at least nine lives including a record-breaking woman climber. A group of 41 climbing trainees and instructors were caught in Tuesday’s massive snowslide near the summit of Mount Draupadi […]