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nanda devi news

Second LPG tanker Nanda Devi arrives at Gujarat port after safe Hormuz passage

MT Nanda Devi, chartered by the Indian Oil Corp, is one of the two LPG tankers, owned by India, that was permitted by Iran to transit the Strait of Hormuz.
Published on Mar 18, 2026 09:01 am IST

Remembering Bill sa’ab, the ace travel writer

A view of the Nanda Devi from Auli in Uttarakhand. (Shutterstock)
Published on Mar 12, 2026 05:47 pm IST

Receding glaciers in Nanda Devi region affecting lifestyle, agriculture

Nanda Devi peak in Uttarakhand was subject of a research on the impact of climate change.
Updated on Aug 23, 2020 04:28 pm IST

Travel on the cards? Here are a few offbeat destinations for backpackers in and around India

Here are a few offbeat destinations for backpackers in and around India.
Updated on Dec 01, 2019 12:41 pm IST

Nanda Devi expedition: Body of team leader not found

Noted British mountaineer Martin Moran who led the eight-member team that perished on way to the Nanda Devi East peak was the lone climber of the group whose body could not be found.
Updated on Jul 06, 2019 03:51 pm IST

Bodies of 7 mountaineers brought to Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh

ITBP personnel carry the bodies of climbers at Naini Saini airport in Pithoragarh where they were brought down on Wednesday morning by IAF choppers.
Published on Jul 03, 2019 12:52 pm IST

32-member team launches fresh ops for missing mountaineers headed for Nanda Devi east peak

Twelve mountaineers had gone for an expedition to climb eastern peak of Nanda Devi, India’s second highest mountain.
Updated on Jun 14, 2019 08:34 am IST

Air-borne ops to retrieve mountaineers’ bodies fail

An IAF chopper prepares to carry out a rescue operation to evacuate bodies of climbers killed during mountaineering expedition to Nanda Devi east of Pithoragarh district, Wednesday, June 5, 2019.
Published on Jun 05, 2019 11:41 pm IST

Mission to recover bodies in Nanda Devi peak to take 10 days or more

An Indian air force helicopter on Monday spotted five bodies partially buried in snow high on a mountain slope.
Updated on Jun 05, 2019 03:52 pm IST

Technical problem halts IAF mission to recover climbers’ bodies from Himalayas

An Indian helicopter mission on Wednesday to remove the bodies of five missing climbers believed killed in an avalanche high in the Himalayas was halted after encountering technical problems, officials said.
Published on Jun 05, 2019 01:56 pm IST

‘High-risk’ retrieval of dead climbers at Nanda Devi peak begins

An Indian helicopter carrying elite paramilitary mountaineers took off Wednesday for a “very high-risk” operation to retrieve five dead climbers and three others believed killed scaling a treacherous Himalayan peak.
Updated on Jun 05, 2019 12:50 pm IST

Admin plans to bring in IAF chopper for ops to retrieve bodies of missing climbers

The rescue team is likely to comprise the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) personnel, officials said.
Updated on Jun 05, 2019 08:40 am IST

Nanda Devi climbers ‘knowingly risked’ their lives: Report

Officials said a total of 12 climbers had set out from Munsiyari in Pithoragarh but they separated into two groups a week later after reaching the Nanda Devi east base camp.
Updated on Jun 04, 2019 01:39 pm IST

Bodies of five missing mountaineers’ bodies spotted near Nanda Devi peak

Pithoragarh’s district magistrate, Vijay Kumar Jogdande, said the bodies were sighted at a height of about 5,000 metres close to another unscaled peak two hours after the chopper took off to the mountaineer group’s last location.
Updated on Jun 04, 2019 07:13 am IST

Bodies of 5 mountaineers spotted near Nanda Devi, 3 still missing

Rescuers said the bodies were trapped in an avalanche near the Nanda Devi East peak.
Updated on Jun 03, 2019 09:17 pm IST

Invoking love for lord Shiva, Polish girl asks PM Modi to help her return

Marta, an artist and photographer, who was on a multiple entry B-2 business visa to India, was turned away from the Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru.
Updated on Jun 02, 2019 08:50 pm IST

4 foreign mountaineers rescued from Nanda Devi, 8 climbers still missing

The four British mountaineers in Pithoragarh after their rescue on Sunday.
Updated on Jun 03, 2019 07:34 am IST

Foreign climbers go missing on way to Nanda Devi peak

The district administration has sent a rescue team in search of them after they failed to return to the base camp.
Updated on Jun 01, 2019 12:11 pm IST

Review: Dark Circles by Udayan Mukherjee

'Mount of Five Treasures (Two Worlds)', 1933. Found in the collection of the Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York.
Published on Jan 25, 2019 05:43 pm IST

Over a lakh devotees expected for the 3-day Nanda Devi festival in Nainital

The Naina Devi temple in the city has been decorated for the three-day festival.
Updated on Sept 18, 2018 02:03 pm IST