IRNA The legendary mountain-climber Azim Qeichisaz returned home on Wednesday receiving a hero's welcome by his fellow citizens after successfully ascending the 8,516-meter (27,940 ft) Mt. Lhotse Summit in Nepal without supplementary oxygen. Qeichisaz started his ascent two months ago, and succeeded to stand on the peak of the Mountain Lhotse ten ...

The Iran Mountaineering Federation expressed regret about the death of several mountaineers in the Nepal earthquake and announced that the three Iranian mountaineers in the Himalayas have not been harmed. The statement indicates that Parvaneh Kazemi, Azim Gheichisaz and Alireza Behpour are camped at Khumbu Icefall and are in good health. Nepal ...

New Delhi, Oct 3, IRNA - An earthquake measuring five on the Richter Scale jolted Sikkim district on Thursday, Regional Seismological Centre said in Shillong. The epicenter of the quake that struck at 1143 hours local time was registered in an area located in Sikkim which is a landlocked Indian state in the Himalayan mountains. The tremor occurred ...