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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Manu Pellisier of France, Marko Prezelj of Slovenia, and Archil Badriashvili of Georgia have reached Nanda Devi East. They have ...

Treacherous conditions forced India's military Wednesday to abort an aerial attempt to recover the bodies of eight climbers feared killed high in the Himalayas, officials said. An Air Force helicopter ...

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. Eight climbers ...

The missing climbers, led by Briton Martin Moran -- who has two previous successful ascents of the mountain -- had initially set out on May 13 for the eastern peak of Nanda Devi. But a post on May 22 ...

Rescuers say they are still “hopeful” of finding alive eight climbers who have been missing on a notoriously difficult to climb mountain in the Indian Himalayas for a week. A search is underway for ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — To Manmohan Singh Kohli, who led the first Indian team to the peak of Mount Everest, modern mountaineering bears little resemblance to the expeditions he headed decades ago. Operators ...

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 ...