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Mousumi Khatua - First Bengali woman to summit Mt. Damavand
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 21 (ANI-BusinessWireIndia): Legendary India mountaineer Bachendri Pal, who summited Mt. Everest in 1984, once said, "Adventure should be part of everyone's life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing."
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'Asian Games a huge opportunity for developing sports Climbing'
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 13 (ANI): Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF) President HS Chouhan has said that the 2018 Asian Games are a huge opportunity for sports climbing to grow in India.
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1968 plane crash victim's body found in H-P glacier
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], July 21 (ANI): After a span of 50 years, the body of a 1968 Indian Air Force (IAF) plane crash victim was found in Himachal Pradesh's Dhaka glacier base camp. A mountaineering expedition recovered the body on July 1.
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Telangana teen scales Mt. Kilimanjaro
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 14 (ANI): Nineteen-year-old mountaineer Amgoth Tukaram from Telangana has achieved a milestone by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest point and tallest free-standing mountain in the world that stands at an imposing 5,895m.
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British mountaineers rescued by Pak Army
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Gilgit-Baltistan [Pakistan], July 1 (ANI): Two British mountaineers stuck in a snow avalanche at the more than 19,000 feet high Ultar Sar Peak near the Hunza Valley of Gilgit Baltistan have been rescued.
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Sitharaman flags-in NIMAS expedition team to Mt Everest
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] June 7 (ANI): Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman flagged-in the expedition team to Mount Everest which was conducted successfully by National Institute for Mountaineering and Allied Sports (NIMAS) in Arunachal Pradesh's Dirang village.
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Mountaineer Shivangi ties rakhi at Everest top
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], May 22 (ANI): India's youngest women to scale Mount Everest Shivangi Pathak tied Rakhi to a fellow mountaineer while sitting at the top of the mountain.
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IAF conquers 'Mission Seven Summits'
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 12 (ANI): A five-member team of the Indian Air Force (IAF) mountaineers have completed their Mission Seven Summits by successfully scaling the Mt Vinson in Antarctica.
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IAF mountaineering team achieves 'Seven Summit' goal
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 11 (ANI): Indian Air Force adventure team has achieved the goal of climbing the highest mountains in seven continents of the world.
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'Visiting Ujjain's Mahakal Temple was more painful than scaling Everest'
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India] Dec 26 (ANI): Arunima Sinha, first woman amputee to scale the Mount Everest, on Tuesday said the Ujjain's Mahakal Temple authorities mocked at her disability during her visit there.
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Air Chief Marshal B.S. Dhanoa flags off IAF's mountaineering team
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 8 (ANI): Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal B.S. Dhanoa on Friday flagged off the mountaineering expedition team.
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IPS Officer Aparna Kumar becomes the first Indian woman to scale Mt Manasl
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] September 28, (ANI): An Indian Police Service (IPS) Officer of Uttar Pradesh Cadre, Aparna Kumar on Thursday became the first Indian woman to scale Mount Manaslu, which is the eighth highest mountain peak in the world.
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