Mountaineering Tragedy

Shocked, shattered and depressed, the survivors of the trekking tragedy in Uttarakhand sat for nearly 36 hours with the bodies of their nine companions, S Srivatsa, Secretary of Karnataka Mountaineering Association recalled the horror.

Pakistani authorities are probing the incident in the village of Barsharyal in the mountainous Kohistan region as a possible case of honour killing.

A year after an avalanche killed 29 mountaineers on the way to Draupadi Ka Danda peak in one of the worst mountaineering tragedies, the body of one more climber was recovered on Thursday.

A powerful earthquake struck Morocco's High Atlas mountains late on Friday, killing hundreds and destroying buildings in the deadliest tremor to hit the country in decades.

The body of a missing hiker in Hawaii was found just days after the rescue of another hiker lost in a Hawaiian forest.

Iranian search teams found the wreckage on Tuesday of a plane that went missing in the Zagros mountains two days earlier with 66 people on board, a spokesman said.

Wreckage of Iranian passenger plane which crashed yesterday in mountains of Iran has been found says state media.

Hundreds of tourists were stranded for hours after a cable car broke down on the Malaysian island of Langkawi, authorities said Monday, with some left dangling in cabins over a jungle-clad mountain as night fell.

Tragedy and a troubling mystery have enveloped Mount Everest as the mountain's climbing season reaches its peak. The bodies of three Indian climbers were retrieved Sunday amid reports that climbers were being jeopardized by the disappearance of oxygen bottles. The two situations have not been linked at this time.

The upbeat mood at Rio Paralympics was darkened late on Saturday by the death of Iranian cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad, who fell during a mountainous descent in the road race and died before he could be treated in hospital

Nepal, today, paid a moving tribute to 16 mountain guides, mostly Sherpas, who were killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest a year ago.

Armed with a four-year-old laptop and an unreliable Internet connection, a retired weather forecaster working from his living room is the best local source of climate data for trekkers in Nepal months after a storm killed 32 in the Annapurna massif.

At least 10 people were killed and more than 100 injured when an auditorium packed with students collapsed at a resort near the southern South Korean city of Gyeongju.

A mountain flight to view Mount Everest at the conclusion of a business conference ended in a tragedy for a group of eight city-based builders when their plane crashed in Nepal on Sunday.

Shocked, shattered and depressed, the survivors of the trekking tragedy in Uttarakhand sat for nearly 36 hours with the bodies of their nine companions, S Srivatsa, Secretary of Karnataka Mountaineering Association recalled the horror.

Pakistani authorities are probing the incident in the village of Barsharyal in the mountainous Kohistan region as a possible case of honour killing.

A year after an avalanche killed 29 mountaineers on the way to Draupadi Ka Danda peak in one of the worst mountaineering tragedies, the body of one more climber was recovered on Thursday.

A powerful earthquake struck Morocco's High Atlas mountains late on Friday, killing hundreds and destroying buildings in the deadliest tremor to hit the country in decades.

The body of a missing hiker in Hawaii was found just days after the rescue of another hiker lost in a Hawaiian forest.

Iranian search teams found the wreckage on Tuesday of a plane that went missing in the Zagros mountains two days earlier with 66 people on board, a spokesman said.

Wreckage of Iranian passenger plane which crashed yesterday in mountains of Iran has been found says state media.

Hundreds of tourists were stranded for hours after a cable car broke down on the Malaysian island of Langkawi, authorities said Monday, with some left dangling in cabins over a jungle-clad mountain as night fell.

Tragedy and a troubling mystery have enveloped Mount Everest as the mountain's climbing season reaches its peak. The bodies of three Indian climbers were retrieved Sunday amid reports that climbers were being jeopardized by the disappearance of oxygen bottles. The two situations have not been linked at this time.

The upbeat mood at Rio Paralympics was darkened late on Saturday by the death of Iranian cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad, who fell during a mountainous descent in the road race and died before he could be treated in hospital

Nepal, today, paid a moving tribute to 16 mountain guides, mostly Sherpas, who were killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest a year ago.

Armed with a four-year-old laptop and an unreliable Internet connection, a retired weather forecaster working from his living room is the best local source of climate data for trekkers in Nepal months after a storm killed 32 in the Annapurna massif.

At least 10 people were killed and more than 100 injured when an auditorium packed with students collapsed at a resort near the southern South Korean city of Gyeongju.

A mountain flight to view Mount Everest at the conclusion of a business conference ended in a tragedy for a group of eight city-based builders when their plane crashed in Nepal on Sunday.