Adding another feather to her cap, Qatari mountaineer Sheikha Asma bint Thani al-Thani has reached the summit of Annapurna 1, the 10th highest peak in the world at 8,091m above sea level. It is known ...

Nepal: The three Russian climbers who went missing from the Annapurna I peak have been identified as Sergey Kondrashkin, Alexander Luthokin and Dmitry Sinev, according to the local media reports.

Seventy-five years ago, on June 3, 1950, French mountaineers Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal achieved what no climber had done before: summit an 8,000m peak. Herzog and Lachenal topped out on 8,091m ...

The highest number of third-country tourists was recorded in 2018, when 133,103 visitors entered the Annapurna region. This ...

Pune: Three mountaineers from Giripremi — Bhushan Harshe, Sumeet Mandale and Jitendra Gaware — scaled the 8,091-metre-high Mt Annapurna-1, the world’s 10th tallest mountain on Friday afternoon, said a ...