Everest summiteers to be liaison officers Kathmandu, March 4:Government is set to allow Everest summiteers to accompany mountaineering expedition team as liaison officer while climbing Himalayan peaks in the coming season.The government is planning to assign at least five Everest summiteers as... 05 Mar, 2008
Snippets Mumbai blasts verdictMUMBAI: A special anti-terror court here on Thursday sentenced one man to life and another to 10 years rigorous imprisonment for their role in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts. Judge PD Kode of the TADA Court awarded life imprisonment... Women 07 Jun, 2007
Pokhara museum to have climbing wall Kathmandu, February 9: A climbing wall is to be built on the premises the International Moutaineering Museum in Pokhara with support from the French embassy in Nepal. French ambassador to Nepal Michel Jollivet is expected to leave for Pokhara next... Travel 02 Sep, 2006
Sagarmatha Award to Roberts KATHMANDU: The governm-ent of Nepal has awarded the Sag-armatha Award to late Lieutenant Col-onel James OM Rob-erts, MVO MBE MC, Gurkha officer, reputed mountaineer and founder of Nepal’s first trekking agency, Mountain Travel Ne-pal, part of Tiger... Travel Abroad 11 Aug, 2006
Nepal-Japan friendship expedition Kathmandu, August 6 :To commemorate 50 years of diplomatic relations established between Nepal and Japan, Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) and Japan Workers’ Alpine Fe-deration (JWAF) are join-tly organising a mountaineering expedition. The... 06 Aug, 2006
LETTERS Share bazaar malpractices Along with the reinstatement of parliament, new avenues have opened for the business sector. There is also the possibility of more investment opportunities. Of late, the public has become more aware and interested in the... 31 May, 2006
Italian, Pole scale Shisha Pangma Rajan Pokhrel Barabise, January 26: Braving the winter, when most of the climbers do not even want to think of embarking on expeditions, two members of the Winter Expedition-2005, Italian national Simone Moro and Polish national Piotr Morawski,... Travel 27 Jan, 2005