Mon, May 01, 2023
A record 466 mountaineers, including 40 from India, have been given climbing permits by the Nepal Government to scale the 8,848.86 metre Mt Everest, the highest peak in the world, this spring.
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Tue, Dec 08, 2020
Nepal, China jointly announced the new snow height of the planet's tallest mountain-- Mt. Everest at 8848.86m.1955 height of Mount Everest established by Indian survey is at 8848m with the new joint announcement increasing it by 0.86m
Fri, May 17, 2019
23-year-old mountaineer Sheetal Raj has become one of the youngest women to scale Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world. In 2018, Raj, who hails from Pithoragarh district, had scaled Kanchenjunga peak, thus becoming the youngest Indian woman to scale the world's third highest peak. Uttarakhand’s Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat congratulated Sheetal on his Twitter page. Sheetal Raj’s father, who is driver by profession said, “We had watched this in television only, that there is something called Mount Everest.”
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