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THE WEEK goes to Machoi Glacier where India trains its soldiers to guard its crucial heights
On snow-covered battlefields like the Himalayas, the Army wants its junior leadership to become decision-makers at the ...
Rocky Mountain National Park helping to prevent avalanche fatalities with safety training area
Rocky Mountain National Park offers a chance to learn how to avoid dangerous avalanche situations at its Avalanche Beacon ...
Mount Everest Sherpa Describes Deadly Avalanche
Pemba Tshering Sherpa, who survived Friday's avalanche on Mount Everest, describes his experience on the mountain that day. Photo: Narendra Shrestha for The Wall Street Journal ...
‘The whole place was shaking’: Australian pro boxer Jordan Roesler’s brush with Mount Everest earthquake
An Australian professional boxer gearing up for the fight of his life has shared a chilling experience with a natural ...
Despite Earthquake German Mountaineer Finishes Mount Everest Winter Expedition
German climber Jost Kobusch safely reached base camp at the foot of Mount Everest, relieved and feeling accomplished. The climber braved high winds, freezing co ...
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Tibet earthquake: ‘Everything was shaking’
"At first I thought a serac [a large block of ice from a glacier] had fallen off next to me," German mountaineer Jost Kobusch told DW. "Then I realized that everything was shaking." When the earth ...
A mountaineer's account of the Tibet earthquake: 'Everything was shaking'
German mountaineer Jost Kobusch was on Mount Everest when an earthquake hit that killed more than 120 people and injured many others. "At first I thought a serac had fallen off next to me," German ...
Nearly 100 killed in Tibet quake
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the northern foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet’s holiest cities, Chinese ...
Desperate hunt for survivors as huge 7.1-magnitude earthquake leaves at least 95 dead in Tibet with aftershocks rattling region near Mount Everest
The US Geological Survey said the 7.1 magnitude quake struck Tibet's Dingri County, near the mountainous border with Nepal, ...
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Earthquake in China's Tibet kills more than 120 with tremors felt in Nepal, India, Bangladesh
Among the dead were at least 18 people killed at the Mount Everest base camp when it was hit by an avalanche. On Tuesday, tremors were felt in Kathmandu, some 400 km (250 miles) from the epicentre, ...
Exclusive: Jost Kobusch Survives Everest Earthquake, 'Shaken But Fine'
"Everything around me was kind of exploding," said Kobusch, who was in his tent at Camp 1 on Everest. "Seracs were coming down, and avalanches roared." ...