It is months since the ice avalanche triggered by a glacier that slipped at Giyari made headlines. The only hope is to look for the dead, a consolation adieu by the bereaved families and to bury the shaheeds with full military honours. This mile-long ice overhang some 1.5 kilometres from the camp ...

Italian mountaineer Karl Unterkircher died while trying to scale the Nanga Parbat in Kashmir, the world's ninth highest mountain, the domestic ANSA news agency said Wednesday. The 38-year-old, a native of the Alto Adige region of northern Italy, fell into a crevasse, or a large deep crack on the ...

A Swiss mountaineer has died from exhaustion after reaching the summit of Mount Everest, his club back home in Switzerland said.  Gianni Goltz, 44, had been attempting to climb the world's highest mountain without the aid of oxygen as part of a Swiss-German team, said Enrico Briner from the ...