Posts Tagged ‘Annapurna’

Two mountaineers from Uzbekistan have gone missing after they were hit by an avalanche while trying to scale the 8,091-metre Annapurna mountain in Nepal, officials said on Thursday. Experienced Uzbek climber Ilyas Tukhvatullin, 54, and his climbing partner Ivan Lobanov, 51, were swept away on Monday evening and have not been found. "They were at camp ... Full story

While trekking from Tilicho lake in Manang to Jomsom in Mustang, Kasper Ldjten from the Netherlands went missing on August 7. Fortunately, the very next day, a team from the Nepal Army High Altitude and Mountain Warfare School and the Durgadal battalion found and rescued Ldjten. It then came to light that Ldjten had been travelling without ... Full story

Annapurna Conservation Area is a very famous tourists trekking destination around the world. It had greeted 79,900 tourists in the last financial year. Mr. Devendra Thapa, Information officer of Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP) said, “The visiting number of visitors has increased from last year by more than 4,000.” Mr. Thapa said, since the volume of visitor arrivals has coherently grown but the rate of growth ... 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

A wild fire started around Annapurna Conservation area from last Monday is still out of control. According to report fire started from the bushes of Ghandruk VDC a popular tourist destination at an altitude of around 2000m, now spread to altitude of 5000m from the sea level. Even though fire is far away from resident area it has affected wild animals, birds and entire ... Full story

Fright of climate change and its effects is making life of alpine people a nightmare. People of Mustang have also been experiencing terrible nightmares due to the effects of climate change in their livelihood and economy lately. Fluctuation of temperature and irregular pattern of rain and snowfall has severely affected the lives of Mustang. Mustang’s ... Full story

TAAN, Trekking Agencies´ Association of Nepal has criticized the UCPN (Maoist) cadres’ illegal activities. TAAN claimed that at present, the cadres, some organized groups and sister organizations of UCPN are widely extorting money from trekkers, trekking professionals and trekking operators in different areas of Manaslu and Annapurna Region forcefully. In a press conference, TAAN criticized the UCPN and their cadre’s activities and plead everyone, all travel and ... Full story