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A Western Kentucky University professor is “broken” but alive after surviving a 70-foot fall into a crevasse while climbing in Nepal. John All said he managed to make it out and to his tent, where he was picked up by a helicopter. “It probably took me four or five hours ...

Nepal on Wednesday opened 104 virgin peaks for mountaineering, taking the total number of peaks mountaineers can climb to 414, the Tourism Ministry said. Among the new peaks opened, the Yalung Khang West is the only mountain higher than 8,000 meters. The mountain, located in eastern Nepal, has a height ...

The operation of paragliding halted for different reasons has now resumed in the southern skirt of the Kathmandu Valley with new management. Though the adventurous flight was first introduced at Godawari of Lalitpur in the Valley in 2007, it is now resumed from Chapakharka hill of Bisankhu VDC of Lalitpur ...

The First Turkish Airlines Everest Golf Cup will be held at Gleneagles designed par-72 Gokarna Golf Club on Saturday. The event will be played over 18 holes on a stable ford format with 7/8 handicap, informed the organiser Turkish Airlines in a press meet in Kathmandu on Monday. Around 100 ...

The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment (IMHE) and Tribhuvan University (TU), Nepal, have established the Sino-Nepal Joint Research Center for Geography. The center, jointly built by IMHE and TU, will carry out geographical research of mountain hazards, mountain ecology and environment monitoring of the southern ...