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Receding glaciers in Nanda Devi region affecting lifestyle, agriculture
The study of changes in glaciers in the region covered a 30 year span between 1980 till 2017.
Updated on Aug 23, 2020 04:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Kalyan Das | Edited by Abhinav Sahay
Travel on the cards? Here are a few offbeat destinations for backpackers in and around India
Travel is not just a means of escaping a busy lifestyle, but an end in itself. It’s an essential part of life, not a break away from it.
Updated on Dec 01, 2019 12:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Saumya Sharma
Nanda Devi expedition: Body of team leader not found
The fact emerged after the identification of the seven bodies recovered from the western ridge of the peak was completed on Saturday, Nainital District Magistrate Savin Bansal said.
Updated on Jul 06, 2019 03:51 PM IST
Nainital | Press Trust of India
Bodies of 7 mountaineers brought to Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh
The four British, two American and one Australian and an Indian mountaineers were reported missing on May 31 after they failed to return to Nanda Devi’s base camp – Munsiyari.
Published on Jul 03, 2019 12:52 PM IST
Dehradun | Kalyan Das
32-member team launches fresh ops for missing mountaineers headed for Nanda Devi east peak
Twelve mountaineers who had gone for an expedition to climb eastern peak of Nanda Devi, India’s second highest mountain have not returned to the base camp on the scheduled date of May 25.
Updated on Jun 14, 2019 08:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Nainital | HT Correspondent
Air-borne ops to retrieve mountaineers’ bodies fail
The team had spotted the five bodies on Monday during a sortie in an IAF chopper. On Tuesday, the district administration framed a strategy to retrieve the bodies.
Published on Jun 05, 2019 11:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | HT Correspondent
Mission to recover bodies in Nanda Devi peak to take 10 days or more
The recovery mission began early on Wednesday but was halted after encountering technical problems, officials said.
Updated on Jun 05, 2019 03:52 PM IST
Pithorgarh | Reuters
Technical problem halts IAF mission to recover climbers’ bodies from Himalayas
Eight climbers - four from Britain, two from the United States, and one each from Australia and India - were reported missing last Friday after they failed to return to their base camp near Nanda Devi.
Published on Jun 05, 2019 01:56 PM IST
Pithoragarh | Reuters
‘High-risk’ retrieval of dead climbers at Nanda Devi peak begins
Air Force choppers spotted five bodies Monday on the slopes of Nanda Devi in India’s high north while looking for the four Britons, two Americans, one Indian and one Australian believed killed by an avalanche last week.
Updated on Jun 05, 2019 12:50 PM IST
New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Admin plans to bring in IAF chopper for ops to retrieve bodies of missing climbers
On Monday, rescuers on-board an IAF helicopter sighted the bodies of the five of eight missing mountaineers at a height of about 5,000 metres around 500 metres from the Nanda Devi peak. The rescue team, however, could not retrieve the bodies due to bad weather.
Updated on Jun 05, 2019 08:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | HT Correspondent
Nanda Devi climbers ‘knowingly risked’ their lives: Report
Military helicopters involved in a major search for the four Britons, two Americans, an Australian and an Indian on Monday spotted five bodies on the Nanda Devi mountain.
Updated on Jun 04, 2019 01:39 PM IST
Pithoragarh | Agence France-Presse
Bodies of five missing mountaineers’ bodies spotted near Nanda Devi peak
The eight-member group of British, American, Australian and Indian mountaineers went missing after leaving Nanda Devi’s base camp in Munsyari on May 13. They were scheduled to complete their expedition on June 1.
Updated on Jun 04, 2019 07:13 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Kalyan Das
Bodies of 5 mountaineers spotted near Nanda Devi, 3 still missing
The eight mountaineers who were attempting to climb Nanda Devi East peak went missing on May 25. Four others who were stranded near the base camp were rescued on Sunday.
Updated on Jun 03, 2019 09:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Kalyan Das
Invoking love for lord Shiva, Polish girl asks PM Modi to help her return
Alicja Wanatko, in her handwritten letter to Modi and newly appointed External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, has also invoked her love for Lord Shiva, the Nanda Devi mountain and her fond memories of caring of cows during her stay in Goa.
Updated on Jun 02, 2019 08:50 PM IST
Panaji | Indo Asian News Service
4 foreign mountaineers rescued from Nanda Devi, 8 climbers still missing
A team of the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) will join the search operations for the eight mountaineers who have been missing since May 25.
Updated on Jun 03, 2019 07:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Haldwani | Abhinav Madhwal
Foreign climbers go missing on way to Nanda Devi peak
The district administration sprang into action after people at the base camp informed the authorities late on Friday night about the team going missing en route to the peak.
Updated on Jun 01, 2019 12:11 PM IST
Pithoragarh (Uttarakhand) | Press Trust of India
Review: Dark Circles by Udayan Mukherjee
Of indiscretion, consequences, despair and doomed lives
Published on Jan 25, 2019 05:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sonali Mujumdar
Over a lakh devotees expected for the 3-day Nanda Devi festival in Nainital
Elaborate arrangements have been made for the festival which witnesses heavy rush of devotees from the Kumaon region and elsewhere in Uttarakhand.
Updated on Sep 18, 2018 02:03 PM IST
Nainital | HT Correspondent, Nainital