- Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 11:34
- News
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On Tuesday the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade announced that one of the two South Korean climbers Yoon Chi-won, 40 and Park Haeng-soo, 27 who had went missing while descending from a Himalayan peak has been found dead.
The climbers reached the summit of Manaslu, the world’s eighth-highest peak at 8,150 meters, east of Annapurna, on April 23.
The two climbers were members of a ...
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- Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 10:16
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World leaders have called for a comprehensive, ambitious and fair international climate change deal to be clinched at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, 7th-18th December this year.
Representing Nepal, PM Madhav Kumar Nepal is also going to participate in the meeting
On December 11th, which is marked as “Mountain Day” in the conference; mountaineers around the world are planning Copenhagen March in the leadership ...
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- Saturday, October 24, 2009, 5:36
- Nepal Tourism Year 2011, News
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Many of us know Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to reach the summit of Everest, but we may not be aware of the fact how many days it took them to reach the summit.
It took more than 15 days for Tenzing Norgay and Sir ...
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- Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 11:21
- Mountain Memories
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During dinner time at basecamp2, we heard a loud sound of an avalanche on SW face of Mount Everest. Everybody rushed out of the tent, only to fill the little vacant space left by the already gathered crowd of trekkers, to locate the area where the assumed avalanche had taken place. There was some difference of opinion among the crowd about what had ...
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