mountain tales
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50 years ago, I and five other Indian women scaled a virgin Himalayan peak. Not all of us came back
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Mountaineering is a modern invention – and it may be time to stop clamouring for the summit
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How European colonial ambition drove generations of mountaineers to risk life and limb in Himalayas
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In photos: The people (and animals) who help trekkers scale the Everest every year
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Why we’re drilling into the world’s highest glacier on Everest with a converted car wash
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In the Himalayas, a home offers comfort and love to the elderly and kids with nowhere to go
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Journalist Elizabeth Hawley, who chronicled Himalayan expeditions for five decades, dies in Nepal
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At the peak of success, mountaineer Harish Kapadia wants to turn Siachen’s glacier into a peace park
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Record number of climbers waiting to climb Mount Everest this spring
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A photographer has taken stunning shots of one of the most treacherous roads in the Himalayas
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A young mountaineer brings the pristine beauty of the world's peaks to her Instagram feed
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Swelling glacial lake threatens Sikkim’s heritage village
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The journey of a Nepali sherpa into the pages of a Tintin comic book
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Friends of Indian climbers missing on Everest caught between hope, despair and an agonising wait
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Everest: does it take a movie to move mountains (and change laws)?