He reached the peak of the world’s highest mountain for a record 31st time on Tuesday, more than three decades after his first summit when he first stood on the top of Mount Everest in 1994
28 May,2025 07:32 AM IST | Kathmandu | Agencies
Kami Rita's mountaineering journey began in 1992 when he joined an expedition to Everest as a support staff member
27 May,2025 10:18 AM IST | Nepal | PTI
The Kerala woman reached the Everest base camp on April 19, began the climb on April 28, started the final push for the summit on May 12 and reached the top on May 18
23 May,2025 05:15 PM IST | Thiruvananthapuram | PTI
Angmo is the fifth such person in the world to scale Mt Everest, planting the Tricolour on Earth's highest mountain
23 May,2025 04:59 PM IST | Shimla | PTI
Four men including government minister Alistair Carns left London on Friday, pre-acclimatised to the low oxygen at high altitudes — including using xenon gas, a method that raised eyebrows in the mountaineering community
22 May,2025 07:28 AM IST | Kathmandu | Agencies
Cool first climbed Mount Everest in 2004 and has been doing it almost every year since then. Only Nepali Sherpa guides have scaled the peak more times than Cool, with Sherpa guide Kami Rita having scaled Everest 30 times
19 May,2025 07:00 AM IST | Kathmandu | Agencies
Meanwhile, an Indian man died after scaling Everest — the second fatality of this year’s climbing season. Subrata Ghosh, 45, reached the top on Thursday but died about 50 metres below the summit while descending
17 May,2025 09:00 AM IST | Kathmandu | Agencies
Rita holds the record for the most successful ascents of Mount Everest at 30 times. In May last year he climbed the peak twice.
21 April,2025 08:21 AM IST | Kathmandu | Agencies
Analysing NASA satellite images from October 2023 till early January 2025, trends illustrated "a rise in snow line through January in both 2024 and 2025", glaciologist Mauri Pelto, a professor of environmental science at Nichols College, US, wrote in a blog post on February 2
20 February,2025 02:56 PM IST | New Delhi | PTI
As per the new regulations, every two members of a mountaineering team must be accompanied by at least one altitude worker or mountain guide
06 February,2025 08:38 AM IST | Kathmandu | AgenciesADVERTISEMENT
