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Inside a Vail Woman’s Harrowing Pursuit of the World’s Highest Mountains
A fatal race made Tracee Metcalfe the closest to becoming the first American woman to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter ...
Smithsonian Magazine5d
The Price to Climb Mount Everest Will Rise to $15,000 This Year
Foreign climbers who want to try reaching the top of the 29,032-foot-tall peak will face higher permit fees in Nepal starting ...
BenarNews6d
I was 10 when my father paid a smuggler to take me out of Tibet
I was born in Kham, in eastern Tibet, my parents’ first born. A brother and sister followed, and the five of us lived with ...
Opinion
Global Watch | Why Tibet Has Become A Hotspot For Natural Calamities
Geologically, the Tibetan Plateau ranks among the most seismically active areas worldwide, serving as a convergence zone for the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates ...
The Hindu22d
Here are five graphics that will help you understand some of the key stories from last week
The quake struck rural, high-altitude Tingri county, about 80 km north of Mount Everest near China’s border with Nepal, at around 9:00 a.m. (0630 IST) on Tuesday. Tingri, the epicentre ...
The Straits Times26d
Focus shifts to Tibet earthquake survivors as search called off
a rural county with a population of about 60,000 people around 80km north of Mount Everest. The temblor shook buildings as far away as Nepal and parts of India, and destroyed more than 3,600 ...
Gulf Times27d
Urgency mounts in search for survivors of Tibet earthquake
In Nepal, an official told Reuters the quake destroyed a school building in a village near Mount Everest ... 3,609 homes had been destroyed in the Shigatse region, home to 800,000 people, state ...
The Independent27d
Thousands moved to shelters in earthquake-hit Tibet as search for missing continues
a rural region with a population of about 60,000 people around 80km north of Mount Everest on Tuesday. The temblor shook buildings as far away as Nepal and parts of India and Bhutan and destroyed ...
The Independent27d
At least 126 killed in 7.1-magnitude Tibet earthquake as tremors felt across multiple countries
Many homes in Shigatse city were reduced to rubble ... with debris spilling out onto the road. Mount Everest sightseeing tours in Tingri, where foreign climbers come to prepare for their ascent ...
The Economist27d
A big earthquake causes destruction in Tibet
The quake’s epicentre was in Dingri county, some 50 miles from the base of Mount Everest and near the holy city of Shigatse. The rumbling was felt in Nepal and parts of India. According to an ...
Nikkei Asia27d
Xi orders all-out efforts in aftermath of Tibet earthquake
The powerful earthquake struck Dingri County in the Shigatse region ... and it is also a stopping point for climbers who scale Mount Everest, the world's highest peak.
kathmandupost27d
Urgency mounts in search for survivors of powerful Tibet earthquake
In Nepal, an official told Reuters the quake destroyed a school building in a village near Mount Everest, which straddles the Nepali ... An initial survey showed 3,609 homes had been destroyed in the ...