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  • 80-year-old Japanese extreme skier becomes oldest climber to reach summit of Mount Everest

    KATMANDU, Nepal - An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer on Thursday became the oldest person to reach the top of Mount Everest -- although his record may last only a few days. An 81-year-old Nepalese man, who held the previous record, plans his own ascent next week. Yuichiro Miura, who also conquered the 29,035-foot (8,850-meter) peak when he was 70 and 75, reached the summit at 9:05 a.m. local ...

  • Nepali youth NGO among four to win WB grant for innovative idea

    Nepali youth NGO among four to win WB grant for innovative idea Four innovative youth-oriented organisations from four different countries have been selected winners at the Regional Grant Competition, jointly organised by the World Bank (WB), Microsoft and Sarvodaya-Fusion. YUWA from Nepal, Shilpa Sayura Foundation from Sri Lanka, YPSA from Bangladesh, Live & Learn Environmental Education ...

  • Seven dead in Nepal bus disaster

    A bus traveling in far west Nepal Thursday skidded off a hilly road and fell about 50 feet, killing at least seven people and injuring 41 others, police said. It was not immediately known if there were more passengers in the bus, which was traveling to Darchula district from Mahendranagar near the border with India. Nepalnews.com reported the accident occurred about 6 a.m. The injured were ...

  • Eighty-year-old climber on top of world after reaching Everest summit

    Yuichiro Miura, an 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer, says he is feeling elated after becoming the oldest person in history to reach the top of Mount ...

  • Nepals oldest climber sponsored by govt to defend his record

    The government of Nepal at its cabinet meeting Thursday decided to provide 1 million rupees ($11, 235.9) to Guinness World Record holder Min Bahadur Sherchan, an official at the prime minister's office said."Today's cabinet meeting decided to provide 1 million rupees to Min Bahadur Sherchan for his attempt to scale Mount Everest to defend his record," Rajendra Pandey, Press ...

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Volcano

"Volcano," the latest big-budget disaster epic, asks us to embrace a rather tantalizingly plausible idea: that all the earthquakes in Los Angeles have opened a fissure in the ground that allows tons of hot, spewing lava to erupt in the middle of downtown and flood Wilshire Boulevard. As Mike Roark, the head of L.A.'s Office of Emergency Management, Tommy Lee Jones finds his hands full containing t ... ...

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  • FM Koirala holds trade talks with Australian Ambassador White

    FM Koirala holds trade talks with Australian Ambassador White Finance Minister Shankar Koirala has urged Australia to help boost trade of Nepali goods in order to mitigate trade deficit. During the meeting with Australian Ambassador to Nepal Glen White here in capital on Wednesday, Koirala asked the Ambassador to help bring Australian investment in Nepal’s potential sectors. Thanking ...

  • Climbers feared dead on Nepals mountain

    (41 mins ago) Five climbers, including the first Hungarian to scale Mount Everest, are missing and feared dead on Nepal's treacherous Kangchenjunga mountain, tourism officials said Thursday. The climbers -- two from Hungary, two from Nepal and one from South Korea -- went missing on Monday afternoon as they attempted to climb the 8,586-metre peak, the officials said, AFP reports. ...

  • Trilateral cooperation among China India and Nepal urged

    Nepal's three former prime ministers have called for a trilateral cooperation among Nepal, China and India in order to hasten economic development in the region. In exclusive interviews with Xinhua recently, the three former prime ministers, Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, Puspa Kamal Dahal " Prachanda" and Madhav Kumar Nepal, underscored the importance of trilateral cooperation among the ...

  • Air ticket shortage in Gulf route leaves thousands of Nepalese workers stranded

    Around 20,000 Nepali migrant workers have been stranded in Nepal's capital city Kathmandu due to a shortage of air tickets and an exorbitant hike in ticket prices on the Gulf route. Staffers of Nepal's foreign employment agencies and migrant workers going to countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have not been able to book tickets even for double ...

  • Nepals sherpas a hardy bunch

    His eyes are as captivating as the peaks soaring above.They glint with excitement and adventure. Crinkling at the edges, they hint of hardship on a youthful face.His smile is as frequent as the caravans of yaks along Nepal's mountain trails. Both spread wide. His round face is as dark and attractive as Kala Pattar - that extra mountain challenge for Everest Base Camp hikers. And just like ...

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