Stefan Siegrist and Jonas Schild of Switzerland returned to India's Garhwal Himalaya recently for a third attempt on 6,540m Shivling. As often happens with alpine-style teams, they ended up opening a ...

Kishtwar Shivling, Indian Himalaya. The East Pillar was first climbed by the Italians Nicola Binelli, Luca Cornella, Sillvestro Franchini and Tomas Franchini on 8-9/06/2016 along their route Via dei ...

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Escalating hostilities between India and Pakistan have thrown spring climbing expeditions into disarray, and even the June-July Karakoram season is uncertain. Sean McLane and Vitaliy Musiyenko of the ...

Laurene Powell Jobs, renowned philanthropist and widow of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, paid a visit to the revered ...

The artwork was crafted over a week by three Kashi-based artisans and metal repousse artists — Anil Kasera and Raghunath Kasera, along with meenakari expert Arun Kumar Verma. Chief minister Yogi ...

Varanasi: On the auspicious occasion of the holy Shravan month, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath presented Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a unique handcrafted Shivling set made from ...