In 1965, a covert US-CIA and Indian mission to install a plutonium-powered spy device on Nanda Devi failed due to severe weather. The device, including plutonium capsules, was lost on the mountain, ...

Willi Unsoeld was not yet an American climbing legend when he first saw the Himalayan peak called Nanda Devi. Known to locals as the mountain of the bliss-giving goddess, it rises to 25,645 feet, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Manu Pellissier of France, Marko Prezelj of Slovenia, and Archil Badriashvili of Georgia, all winners of at least one Piolet d’Or, ...

A week and a half after they were last heard from, eight mountaineers attempting the unclimbed Peak 6477 on the flanks of 24,389-foot Nanda Devi East in the Indian Himalaya are now presumed dead. On ...

New Delhi [India], January 15 (ANI): The Indian Air Force (IAF) responded "swiftly" to fight a forest fire in Uttarakhand's Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve area on Wednesday. According to the Central Air ...

Indian paramilitary soldiers have reached the bodies of seven people from an eight-member team of international climbers believed to have been killed on a notoriously dangerous Himalayan mountain, an ...

Nestled high in West Himalaya, India’s Valley of Flowers National Park is renowned for its meadows of endemic alpine flowers and outstanding natural beauty. This richly diverse area is also home to ...

Ever wondered why no one is allowed to climb Nanda Devi? And by ‘no one’ we mean travellers and adventure seekers. Nestled in the rugged Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand, Nanda Devi rises to 7,816 ...