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First Chinese Women's team conquers Mount Qomolangma

First Chinese Women's team conquers Mount Qomolangma

The three Chinese women take a photo on Mount Qomolangma on May 22, 2019. A mountaineering team of Chinese women have successfully scaled the world's highest peak -- Mount Qomolangma, also known as Mount Everest -- on Wednesday. The three Chinese women are Ma Liyamu, from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region; Ada Tsang Yin-hung, a former school teacher from Hong Kong; and Sun Ning, a designer from Central China's Henan province.

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3 women from 3 different countries scale Mt Everest

3 women from 3 different countries scale Mt Everest

KATHMANDU: Three women climbers from Nepal, India and China have successfully climbed Mt Everest. Kanchhi Maya Tamang from Nepal, Kalpana Dash from India and Liyamu Ma from China have climbed Mt Everest. Dash climbed Mt Everest at 12:30 pm today while Tamang and Ma climbed the world’s highest peak at 9 am and  at 9:45 am yesterday, respectively. Similarly, they hoisted the flagship of Nepal Tourism Year 2020 signed by Prime Minister

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Nepal's Gopal Shrestha Becomes First HIV-Infected Climber To Scale Mount Everest

KATHMANDU:  A-56 year-old Gopal Shrestha from Pokhara in Nepal became first HIV infected climber to ascend world's highest peak, the Mount Everest. Mr Shrestha, resident of Ratnachowk in Pokhara reached the summit on Wednesday morning as per the report of the state-news-agency, the Rastriya Samachar Samiti. The report said, "The 56-year-old, who is a resident of Ratnachowk in Pokhara, set his feet on the summit of the 8,848-metre-tall m

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Everest can be ‘conquered’ without oxygen, but ‘not without’ Sherpas

Everest can be ‘conquered’ without oxygen, but ‘not without’ Sherpas

*Khabarhub PC: Khabarhub, Phurba Tenjing Sherpa Sometimes, records are made unknowingly. This happened in the life of Phurba Tenjing Sherpa – a proud recipient of two Guinness World Records. On May 23, 2018, he climbed Mt. Everest with his siblings — Pemba Dorje Sherpa, Dawa Diki Sherpa, Phurba Thinley Sherpa – to set a record of the most number of siblings to ascend Mt. Everest concurrently. Did Phurba know that he was makin

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Women On Top

Women On Top

These are Photographs by ‘First Women Journalists Everest Expedition 2018 (FWJEE18)’ team during their last expedition started from April 18 to May 29, 2018. Here are photos only from region above Lobuche. Copyright of these photos belongs to FWJEE18. FWJEE18 is a team of five young female journalists working in different media houses in the country, that has climbed the Mount Everest on 23rd May, 2018 under the banner of ‘Fede

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Navigating Sagarmatha through photographs

Navigating Sagarmatha through photographs

KATHMANDU: Photographs taken by the ‘First Women Journalists Sagarmatha Expedition-2018’ team while scaling the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest, have been put on exhibition in town. The photo exhibition titled ‘Women on Top’ is being held at the hall of Nepal Tourism Board since Friday. As part of NTB’s ‘Photo Nepal’ programme, the exhibition was organised on the occasion of Kathmandu Inte

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Sherpa siblings receive Guinness World Record certificates

Sherpa siblings receive Guinness World Record certificates

KATHMANDU: The Guinness World Records has officially announced a group of Sherpa climbers from Dolakha district as the most siblings to have scaled the world’s highest peak together from Nepal side in the spring climbing season. Pemba Dorjee Sherpa, Phurba Tenjing Sherpa, Phurba Thiley Sherpa and Dawa Diki Sherpa from Rolwaling Valley stood atop Mt Everest on May 23, 2018, according to GWR. “Three Sherpa brothers along with their sis

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First Nepali women Journalists team scripts history on Mt Everest

 A team of women journalists successfully climbed Mt Everest this morning, according to base camp officials. “The First Women Journalists Everest Expedition-2018 made it to the top of Mt Everest at around 6:00am,” liaison officer Gyanendra Shrestha told THT from the base camp. Four young women journalists involved in different facets of country’s journalism have also become the first team of journalists to script a

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Nepal named as top travel destination in 2017

Nepal named as top travel destination in 2017

Nepal’s name is in lights once again thanks to the travel experts at Lonely Planet, who named the country as No.1 best value destination for 2017 and No.5 on their hot list of countries to visit next year.  It will be welcome news to the Nepalese people who rely on tourism to make a living, following a series of disastrous years where the country hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons: plane crashes, fatal avalanches and ear

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Nepal in Lonely Planet's 'Best to Travel in 2017' list

Nepal in Lonely Planet's 'Best to Travel in 2017' list

Even natural disasters can’t keep Nepal down for long. The 2015 earthquakes caused devastation, but what is most striking from a traveller’s perspective is not how much was lost but how much remains. Landmark temples crumbled, but others came through with just the odd tile out of place, and whole swathes of the country escaped serious damage, including most of the popular trekking trails. Nepal has all the skills required to

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