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Our Everest reporter explains the biggest stories from the 2025 season: fewer fatalities than in 2024, a narrow weather ...
New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. The two were part of the ...
Subrata Ghosh, 45, from India, died on Thursday below the Hillary Step while returning after reaching the 8,849 metre (29,032 feet) peak.
Even if Sherpas reach the body, retrieval is tough—especially if it's in a hard-to-access spot or at an altitude too high for helicopters to operate safely ...
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay created history by summiting Mt Everest, the world’s highest peak. On its anniversary, here ...
Kathmandu: An Indian mountaineer, Subrata Ghosh, died on Mount Everest on Thursday below the Hillary Step when he was after reaching the 8,849 metre peak. Notably, Ghosh has become the second ...
Rumpa Das and Subrata Ghosh climbed Mt Everest. He didn’t make it back, she did. Between the two of them, they frame the ...
Indian and Filipino climbers die on Mount Everest, marking the first fatalities of the 2025 spring climbing season.
"We got the news from Nepal that my elder brother has died near the Hillary Step while coming down after scaling Mt Everest. I do not know what exactly happened to him. He had been absolutely fine.
Subrata Ghosh, a 45-year-old mountaineer from West Bengal, lost his life near the Hillary Step, a dangerous stretch close to the 8,848.86-metre (29,032-foot) summit of Mount Everest. As reported ...