Karakoram Mountains
The Karakoram Mountains extend 500 kilometers (310 miles) from India's Ladakh Himalaya, northwest through Pakistan to the Afghan Hindu Kush. The icy summits separate South A...
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Prague (dpa) - The Czech Green party denied reports Wednesday that
Czech Deputy Prime Minister, Martin Bursik, had been killed while
taking part in a Himalayan mountain clim...
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A 42-member group of trekkers is leaving for the Siachen Glacier
in the eastern Karakoram Range of the Himalayas late Wednesday,
despite strong objections from Pakistan.
The group, which i...
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A 42-member group of trekkers is leaving for the Siachen Glacier
in the eastern Karakoram Range of the Himalayas late Wednesday,
despite strong objections from...
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Islamabad/Dubai (dpa) - Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir
Bhutto confirmed Wednesday her scheduled homecoming after eight years
of self-imposed exile, as security was...
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Some 15,000 Pakistani troops have massed for a major assault on Islamic militants in a scenic northern valley, whose fall has raised concern about Pakistan's ability to withstand rising extremism, ...
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Dec 21 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on December 28 since 1900: 1908 - More than 82,000 people were killed in an earthquake
which reduced Messina, Sicily's se...
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Indian trekkers to set off for Siachen Glacier
NEW DELHI - A 42-member group of trekkers is leaving for the
Siachen Glacier in the eastern Karakoram Range of the Himalayas late
...
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Fifty years later, the man who first stood on the roof of the world lamented how Mount Everest had changed since his historic summit."It is hardly mountaineering; more like a conducted tour," Sir E...
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The first time a climber lays eyes on Everest, it's hard not to imagine what it was like when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay topped out on the world's highest peak shortly before noon on May 29,...
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Karakoram Mountains
Czech deputy premier's mountaineering holiday marred by death
