The previous Spring climbing season at Mt Everest saw at least 17 deaths —12 confirmed dead; 5 missing and presumed dead — by May 2023.
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Nepal: Trans-woman Maya and gay man Surendra become South Asia’s first married LGTBQIA+ couple
Nepal has formally registered the first case of same-sex marriage, making it the first South Asian country to do so. The marriage took place five months after the country’s Supreme Court legalised it.
Narendra Modi reviews bilateral relationship with Nepalese counterpart Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Narendra Modi, Nepal’s Pushpa Kamal Dahal reviews bilateral ties during telephone conversation on Saturday.
Six killed in helicopter crash near Mt Everest
All six people on board were killed when a private commercial helicopter crashed today near Mount Everest in eastern Nepal. The chopper was carrying five members of a Mexican family on vacation and the Nepali pilot.
5-year-old Indian girl raises the tricolour at Everest Base Camp
Prisha’s father Lokesh Nikajoo is a trained climber. The child covered 130km in 12 days with him before she could proudly display the national flag of India.
Everest summiter Shrinivas Dattatraya’s wife Sushma Soma pays tribute to his exploration of Singapore
The search for Shrinivas Sainis Dattatraya, who summited Mt Everest but could not make his way down on May 19, has been arguably the most high-profile incident in the 2023 spring climbing season of the Himalayas.
Mt Everest spring climbing season: Sherpa rescued by Sherpa from deep and icy crevasse
The video shows quite a heart-stopping rescue, as the rescuer climbs down, tied to a line, and cuts the ice with a shovel in order to make some room to move, so that the Sherpa in distress can be lifted up.
Nepali Sherpa rescues climber from Mt Everest ‘death zone’
A Nepali Sherpa saved a Malaysian climber who was incapacitated in Mount Everest’s death zone, where temperatures can get to as low as -30°C, a Nepalese government official stated.
Scaling Mt Garbage: A sad sight on Everest as the world marks 70th year of Hillary-Tenzing feat
The revolting pile of trash represents an uncontrolled number of climbers on Mt Everest, climbers who very often do not have the experience to scale an 8,000+ metre peak.
RIP Shrinivas Dattatraya: Wife of missing Indian-origin climber from Singapore accepts end of search on Mt Everest
“But in the end, the mountain has the last say,” wrote singer Sushma Soma on Instagram, quoting her husband, Mt Everest summiter Shrinivas Sainis Dattatraya, Indian-origin climber from Singapore. The family appears to have accepted that he may never be found.