Tag: Summit fever

Summit fever: Everest’s budget climbing boom puts Indians most at risk

KOLKATA/KATHMANDU – Earlier this month Dipankar Ghosh, a 52-year-old Indian photographer, scaled the world’s fifth-highest peak, the snow-capped Mount Makalu. He didn’t make it back down alive. After being separated from the rest of his team in bad weather, he collapsed and died along with Narayan Singh, an […]

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