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  • 30 Chinese climbing summits in Nepal 2 die

    Thirty climbers from China, 24 male and 6 female have been registered to scale various summits this spring but two of them have already died, officials said on Wednesday.Li Xiaoshi, 58, from Taiwan, China, died while attempting the 8, 516-meter-tall Lhotse Mountain. and Liu Xiangyang, 46, from Yunnan province, died while attempting the 8,463-meter-tall Makalu Mountain. Li got altitude sickness ...

  • Indian woman becomes first female amputee to climb Mount Everest

    Arunima Sinha, 26, from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, reached the peak on Tuesday morning after a slow climb from Everest Base ...

  • Octogenarians race to be oldest Everest climber

    In this Friday, May 17, 2013 photo distributed by Miura Dolphins, 80-year-old Japanese adventurer Yuichiro Miura, right, and his son, Gota, rest on their way to a camp at 6,500 meters (21,325 feet) from a camp at 6,050 meters (19,849 feet) during their attempt to scale the summit of Mount Everest. According to his management office, Miura plans to reach the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak on ...

  • Nepal living goddess a local oddity

    "It sounds far more complicated than choosing a new Pope," says a visitor from Australia as our guide outlines elaborate, fascinating and strictly observed rituals preceding the appointment of Kathmandu's "living goddess".A sweet-natured young girl is usually selected to become a goddess, a child whose tantrums are rare and who can be counted on to smile demurely at ...

  • Nepali-Canadian 1st double amputee on Everest

    A Nepali-Canadian has become the first double amputee to climb the world's highest mountain.According to Khim Lal Gautam, liaison officer at Nepal's Tourism Ministry, Sudarshan Gautam, the Nepali-Canadian, reached atop Mt Everest at 9:00 am on Monday. Gautam, 30, lost both his hands at the age of 14 in an accident. He was on a mission to spread the message that "disability is not ...

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Margin Call

Margin Call

An intense, focused dramatization of one moment at the beginning of the 2008 global financial meltdown, J.C. Chandors Margin Call arrives on the heels of numerous documentaries that have attempted to show in grand fashion how toxic assets, bad mortgages, and shady dealings brought ... ...

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  • Construction works on Tunnel Highway to start within month

    Construction works on Tunnel Highway to start within month Construction works on the Hetauda-Kulekhani-Kathmandu tunnel highway would be started within a month, state-owned news agency RSS reports. Chairman of Federation of Contractors´ Associations of Nepal (FCAN) and manager of the tunnel highway construction, Jayram Lamichhane, said that they would start the construction process ...

  • China-trained medical doctors doing fine in Nepal

    Bhavuk Sharma Bajagain, 30, a medical doctor by profession, is often busy with his patients in the emergency ward of Kathmandu Model Hospital, one of the more reputable hospitals .In the morning, Bajagain also teaches and shares his medical experience with students in two different local medical institutions."I am very happy and satisfied when I see my patients relieved of pain after ...

  • Female Saudi Everest climber happy to change views

    Raha Moharrak, the first Saudi Arabian woman to scale the world's highest peak Mount Everest, talks to the media at Yak and Yeti Hotel in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. According to mountaineering officials, Moharrak was among 64 climbers who successfully scaled Mount Everest from Nepal's side of the mountain. May is the most popular month for Everest climbs because of more ...

  • Nepal slams climbers illegal call from Mount Everest- Montana hiker dies in Yosemite rock climbing accident

    May 19, 2010: Clouds hover above the world's highest peak Mount Everest, as seen from Syangboche, about 125 kilometers (80 miles) northeast of Katmandu, ...

  • Bangladeshi South Korean climbers die on Everest

    KATHMANDU (AFP) - A climber from Bangladesh and another from South Korea have died on Mount Everest as hundreds flock to the world's highest peak during good weather, Nepalese tourism officials said Tuesday."Both men died while descending from the summit on Monday," an official with the tourism ministry told AFP from Everest Base Camp.Sung Ho-Seo, 34, of South Korea was attempting ...

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