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International Mountain Day 2019

The International Mountain Day was adopted in 1992 as a part of the action plan Agenda 21 of...

📅 December 11, 2019

Nirmal Purja climbs 14 highest mountains in a record-breaking 6 months

Nirmal Purja, a Nepali mountaineer and former British army soldier, has  climbed all 14 of the world’s 8,000-metre-high...

📅 October 30, 2019

Junko Tabei

Junko Tabei was the first woman to climb the Mt Everest. She was also the first woman to...

📅 September 23, 2019

Aparna Kumar becomes first IPS Officer to complete ‘Seventh Summit’ Challenge

Aparna Kumar, a 2002 batch IPS officer from UP cadre, has created history by becoming the first civil...

📅 July 1, 2019

The world’s highest operating weather stations installed on Mt Everest

The National Geographic Society has announced the successful installation of the world’s highest operating weather stations on Mount...

📅 June 15, 2019

2019 edition of International Everest Day (IED)

The International Everest Day (IED) is observed every year on May 29 to mark the first successful climb...

📅 May 29, 2019

Kalpana Dash, first woman mountaineer of Odisha passes away

Kalpana Dash (50), the first woman mountaineer of Odisha, has passed away near Balcony area of world’s highest...

📅 May 28, 2019

Priyanka Mohite becomes first Indian woman to successfully scale Mount Makalu

Priyanka Mohite, the 26-year-old Satara based mountaineer, has become the first Indian woman to successfully scale Mount Makalu...

📅 May 22, 2019

Kami Rita Sherpa successfully scales Mt. Everest for record 23rd time

A renowned Nepali mountaineer, Kami Rita Sherpa has created history by successfully scaling the Mount Everest peak (8848m)...

📅 May 20, 2019

Nepal expedition to remeasure the height of Mount Everest

Nepal’s Survey Department has commissioned a team of surveyors climbers to remeasure the height of Mount Everest to...

📅 April 11, 2019

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