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The Nepalese government has closed Mount Everest ahead of its busy spring climbing season as a 'precaution' against the coronavirus outbreak
The country, which also plans to stop issuing visas until April 30, was last forced to interrupt it…
Rhea Mahbubani,Rhea Mahbubani
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China is planning to build a railway under Mount Everest
Wang is no stranger to ambitious engineering feats - he has also proposed a 125 mile long tunnel to…
Alex Lockie
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Deadly Nepal earthquake was so powerful it moved Mount Everest
The quake, which hit Nepal on April 25, devastated the city of Kathmandu and caused an avalanche on…
Tanya Lewis
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China is setting up a 'line of separation' on top of Mount Everest to isolate climbers going up the Tibetan side from a COVID-19 outbreak on the Nepalese side
Tibetan guides will set up the "line of separation" before a group of 21 Chinese nationals arrive o…
Connor Perrett
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49-yr-old Sherpa climbs Mt Everest for the 23rd time, breaks his own record
A 49-year-old Nepalese climber, Kami Rita Sherpa scaled Mount Everest for the 23rd time on Wednesda…
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A former teacher from Hong Kong just broke the record for the fastest Everest ascent by a woman
Tsang Yin-hung, a former schoolteacher, scaled Everest in 25 hours and 50 minutes, beating the prev…
Cheryl Teh
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Armchair travelers can now explore Mount Everest on Google Street View
Google has teamed up with Ava Sherpa, a Nepalese mountaineer who has reached the summit of the worl…
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Most of the glaciers of the Himalayan mountain range surrounding Mount Everest will melt by the end of the 21st century: Report
In fact, one-third of the Himalayan glacier will melt by 2100 even if the global efforts are u…
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'This is my year's earnings': Nepal's tourism industry is reeling after the Everest climbing season was canceled
Over 1 million workers in Nepal rely on tourism, but a nationwide lockdown has left many unable to …
Robert Leslie
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China is drilling a hole over 33,000-feet-deep to explore the Earth's crust
Chinese engineers said the deep-Earth exploration would drill through an "underground Mount Everest…
Alia Shoaib
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China just built a 250-acre solar farm shaped like a giant panda
Called the Panda Power Plant, it will be able to produce 3.2 billion kilowatt-hours of solar energy…
Leanna Garfield
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China calls Tripadvisor and 104 other mobile apps 'illegal' before removing them from online stores
China on Tuesday said it has removed leading US travel platform Tripadvisor's app along with 104 ot…
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A Chinese climber saved from Mount Everest has been caught in a social-media firestorm after being accused of refusing to pay a promised $10,000 fee to the Sherpas who rescued her
Liu was castigated by the Chinese internet when the news broke, but the company employing the Sherp…
Matthew Loh
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Climbers Are Obsessed With These 14 Eight-Thousander Peaks
According to statistics compiled by Eberhard Jurgalski, co-author of On Top of the World: The New M…
NASA Earth Observatory
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Alibaba has reportedly filed confidentially for a Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $20 billion
The listing could raise as much as $20 billion, but the official amount hasn't been determined yet,…
Daniel Strauss
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After India, China is now breaching the borders of Nepal
The dispute emerged after the Chinese side unilaterally constructed 11 cemented buildings in the…
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The US Army says it will have hypersonic missiles and laser weapons ready for combat in less than 4 years
As Russia and China are also racing to field hypersonic weapons, the Army is planning to spend arou…
Ryan Pickrell
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An Indian Court wants response from authorities on Facebook, Google and Amazon Pay's allegedly unregulated financial ops
A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan issued notice to the ministries of …