The potential leak of radioactive material from the lost equipment on Nanda Devi is the source of much regret and consternation among the surviving climbers who put it there. At least four of the ...

Manu Pellisier of France, Marko Prezelj of Slovenia, and Archil Badriashvili of Georgia have reached Nanda Devi East. They have completed their acclimatization and are ready to attempt a new route up ...

Indian authorities have released footage showing the final moments of the climbers who died in the Indian Himalayas in May. The video was found on a "memory video device" near the Nanda Devi East, the ...

Manu Pellissier of France, Marko Prezelj of Slovenia, and Archil Badriashvili of Georgia, all winners of at least one Piolet d’Or, will attempt a new alpine-style route up Nanda Devi East in the ...

The bodies of seven climbers who went missing in the Indian Himalayas late last month were recovered by rescue teams on Sunday, according to a tweet from the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. The bodies of ...

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New Delhi: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and India's Intelligence Bureau launched a secret operation in 1965 to place a nuclear-powered surveillance device on Nanda Devi to monitor China's ...

SNOW ON THE EQUATOR—H. W. Tilman —Macmillan ($3). A good book on mountain climbing can give almost any non-climber an attack of armchair vertigo. In The Ascent of Nando. Devi Mountain-Climber Tilman ...