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Jordan Romero a 13 year old boy who has reached the summit of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world at 29,035 meters, becoming the youngest person ever to complete the climb. The previous youngest record holder was 16 years old and now feels embarrassed. When Jordan reached the top he said, "Mom, I'm calling from the top of the world,” "There were ... Full story

Zao Liyang, a 35 year old climber was part of a nine-member expedition to the peak but fell to his death by bad weather on Saturday, the Nepal Tourism and Civil Aviation Department said. He was killed and two other companions got disappeared on the slopes of the highest seventh peak in the world, officials said. A search of them is going on, including searches by ... Full story

World Cyclist Pushkar Shah has climbed Mount Everest, the world's highest peak on Monday. Shah, who was expecting a good weather at the South Pole from few days, has ascended the summit at 10:30 am, Indra Maharjan, liaison officer, of Shah reported. "As the weather was beautiful, more than 40 climbers scaled Mount Everest along with Shah," said Maharjan. Nigma Sherpa, Dawa Sherpa Thinju, Indra Bahadur Rai ... Full story

Trekking Agency Association of Nepal (TAAN) and Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) has issued 16 787 Trekkers' Information Management System (TIMS) card. In accordance to TAAN during the month of April, it issued a total of 12 615 cards and raised a total amount of Rs 13.716 million. The government has made some differences to existing TIMS, provisions have been implemented from 1st of April. In accordance to ... Full story

World famous South African swimmer and environmentalist Lewis Pugh is on the verge of his hardest unprecedented challenge. Pugh is the only man to have won a swim long distance in all oceans of the world, will try to cross a glacial lake on Mount Everest, 5300m altitude, wearing only a Speedo, on May 23. The 40-year-old man wants to draw attention to the melting of glaciers ... Full story

Sambahamphe Junit, a Nepalese girl in her twenties, has targeted to climb the highest peaks on all seven continents, following the trail of a South Korean female climber who had accomplished the feat at the end of last month. Sambahamphe, who made it to the top of the world's highest peak 8848 meters high, Mount Everest last year, will leave for Moscow to start her ... Full story

Nepal Tourism Year (NTY) 2011 Coordinating Committee — with an aim to bring 3,00,000 Indian tourists — is going to start its promotional programme at the Indian border cities. “We are set for the promotion programme at Gorakhpur, Lucknow, Raxual, Sitamadi, and Sunauli and other places at the Nepal-India border cities,” said Dhruba Narayan Shrestha, coordinator of tourism sector at the Federation of Nepalese ... Full story

The Standing Committee of agitating Unified CPN (Maoist) on Friday evening called off its 6 days long nation wide strike. The party decided to call off its strike to prevent conflict among the people. However, the Maoists vowed to continue their protest programs until a national government was formed through consensus among parties. Thanking people for their support the party apologized for the inconvenience caused ... Full story

Nepal Tourism Board has arranged shuttle bus service for the national and international air passengers from airport to various hotels and vice versa on May 6, 2010. Passengers can contact directly to the concerned Police Officer assigned in each bus or Tourist Police. However, shuttle bus will not operate if vehicular movement remains normal on that day. The shuttle bus will start operating from 5.30 ... Full story

Famous Hollywood star Jessica Biel is planning to trek Everest Base Camp. She wants to climb the world’s highest peak Mt. Everest. She had before climbed successfully Mt. Kilimanjaro Africa’s highest peak on January 10th. At that time she was accompanied by actor Emile Hirsch and members ... Full story