It was fate that brought Sauraj Jhingan, 33, and Samir Patham, 37, together in 2005. Back then, they were pursuing MBA from the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management in Pune. Though they had ...

New Delhi [India], July 15: After six years of failure, near-death experiences on Everest, and walking away just 900 metres from the summit, Samir Patham and Sauraj Jhingan return with a memoir on ...

Two mountaineers from Maharashtra, who have led 16 expeditions to the Everest Base Camp, were in Nepal when the earthquakes rocked the country from April 25. But instead of heading home, they continue ...

In the early hours of 16 May, the Everest climbing team departed from Camp 2, heading towards the bergschrund at the base of the Lhotse wall. We made good progress, with Sauraj leading us efficiently ...

Sauraj Jhingan and Samir Patham on their Mount Everest expedition On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the highest mountain ...

After surviving the Nepal quake in 2015, 2 friends from Pune are hoping to scale Mount Everest this year New Delhi: Samir Patham and Sauraj Jhingan say they have been preparing to scale the world's ...

Fondly called ‘Simbum ToTo’ (Little Simba), Advait Bhartia reached the top of mountain on July 31, under the supervision of his expedition leader Samir Patham. Most nine-year-olds would find it ...

Sauraj: The earthquake had destroyed 70 per cent of the base camp. There were roughly 700 people of which 22 people lost their lives and 60 of them were severely injured. Hence, they had to be air ...

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Most nine-year-olds would find it difficult to even put a finger on Mount Kilimanjaro on a map, but not Advait Bhartia, who recently scaled the the highest free-standing mountain in the world. Mount ...