5 climbers feared dead on world’s 3rd highest peak
A Nepalese official says five climbers are missing and feared dead on the world’s third highest mountain.
A Nepalese official says five climbers are missing and feared dead on the world’s third highest mountain.
An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer on Thursday became the oldest person to reach the top of Mount Everest—although his record may last only a few days. An 81-year-old Nepalese man, who held the previous record, plans his own ascent next week.
A Nepalese official says 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura has become the oldest man to reach the top of Mount Everest.
A 50-year-old Russian climber died Wednesday attempting to scale Mount Everest in this season’s fourth death on the world’s highest peak, a government official said.
A Chinese climber is feared dead in the Himalayas after he slipped and fell while descending from the peak of the world’s fifth-highest mountain, his trekking company announced Monday.
A mountaineer on Everest described Monday the “terrifying” scene of two famous European climbers fighting with Nepalese guides in a high-altitude brawl that has sparked a police investigation.
The grandson of a pilot who flew the first flight over the world’s highest mountain, Nepal’s Mount Everest, retraced the route Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of the feat.
A bus carrying a wedding party has rolled off a mountain highway in Nepal, killing 15 people and injuring another 22.
Two Tibetan monks in their early 20s set themselves on fire in protest against Chinese rule near dozens of pilgrims who had gathered for prayers to mark the end of the Tibetan New Year festival, a Tibet rights group said. Both died. A third monk was taken to a hospital after setting himself alight in a separate incident, another group reported. His condition and whereabouts weren’t immediately known.
A Tibetan protester doused himself with gasoline, set himself ablaze and chanted anti-China slogans as he ran down a street in Nepal’s capital Wednesday, the latest in a string of self-immolations protesting China’s rule over Tibet.
A media rights group said 22 journalists have fled a town in northwestern Nepal after threats from supporters of the prime minister’s political party.
A landslide has swept several vehicles off a mountain highway, killing four people while nine others have been reported missing, an official here said.
A plane carrying trekkers to the Mount Everest region hit a bird and crashed just after takeoff Friday in Nepal’s capital, killing the 19 Nepali, British and Chinese people on board, authorities said.
