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☆ India’s capital renews firecracker ban to combat pollution
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Blassy Boben | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

NEW DELHI, Sept 11 (Reuters) - India's New Delhi has reimposed a ban on firecrackers ahead of the Diwali festival to curb air pollution in the winter, when air quality reaches hazardous levels, the capital city's environment minister said on Monday. "Manufacturing, storage, sale, online delivery and bursting of any type of firecrackers is completely prohibited in Delhi," Minister Gopal Rai said at a press conference, adding that police have been instructed to stop issuing licenses for fireworks. Firecrackers are a part of celebrations for the Hindu festival of Diwali, which falls in mid-November this year. The government said that the city reported its best air quality since 2015 last year, driven by measures including a push for greener vehicles. Reporting by Blassy Boben; Editing by Sharon SingletonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Gopal Rai, Blassy Boben, Sharon Singleton Organizations: Thomson Locations: DELHI, Delhi, New Delhi, India

☆ Bhutan cuts daily tourist fee by half to lure more visitors
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Gopal Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

"This is in view of the important role of the tourism sector in generating employment, earning foreign exchange ... and in boosting overall economic growth," it said. Isolated for generations, Bhutan opened to tourists in 1974 when it received 300 visitors. The tourist fee has limited arrivals to bigger spenders who make up a fraction of the numbers that visit nearby Nepal. Nevertheless, Bhutan hopes to raise the contribution of tourism to its $3 billion economy 20%, from about 5%. In June, the government eased rules on length of stay and fees for tourists but numbers have not picked up as expected.

Persons: Dorji Dhradhul, Dhradhul, Gopal Sharma, Robert Birsel Organizations: Department of Tourism, Thomson Locations: KATHMANDU, Bhutan, COVID, Nepal

☆ 'We are being poisoned': Black residents living in Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' say the state is guilty of 'genocide' and environmental racism
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Trisha Gopal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Black residents living in the area have a disproportionate lifetime cancer risk. The complaint alleged that the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality discriminated against Black residents by issuing permits that authorized new industrial facilities. Last year, the EPA announced a critical civil-rights investigation into Louisiana, looking into whether the state had violated the rights of Black residents in Cancer Alley. Smoke billows from a chemical plant in the area along 'Cancer Alley', October 12, 2013. "Once we came up with Cancer Alley, industry hated it, and they've been trying to prove that it's not a reality," he said.

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Most of the recent arrivals have settled in Perth, Western Australia, where they have enrolled in courses such as childcare, hospitality and accounting. Tashi Kipchu, a 25-year-old education consultant, is one of many who came to Australia last year in search of better opportunities. People don't see an opportunity out there," said Kipchu, who studied marketing at the University of Western Australia. That accelerated after the reopening of borders in Australia in 2022, with official data showing student visa applications from Bhutan jumping fivefold in the fiscal year ended June. At Kingston International College, a vocational education provider in Western Australia, about 150 Bhutanese students receive training, said managing director Tandin Dorji, himself a Bhutanese migrant.

Persons: Cathal McNaughton SYDNEY, Tashi Kipchu, Kipchu, Phil Honeywood, Sonam Tobgay, Tandin Dorji, Dorji, Stella Qiu, Gopal Sharma, Sam Holmes Organizations: REUTERS, University of Western, International Education Association of Australia, Bhutan's, Kingston International College, Thomson Locations: Thimphu, Bhutan, KATHMANDU, Australia, Perth, Western Australia, University of Western Australia, South Asia, China, India, Nepal, Bhutanese, Sydney, Kathmandu

☆ Norwegian woman, Nepali sherpa become world's fastest to climb all 14 tallest peaks
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Gopal Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

“They have become the fastest to climb all 14 peaks,” Tashi, told Reuters, quoting information from the base camp. Climbing all 14 highest peaks in a few months is a challenging feat, which is normally done by many climbers in years. They set the fastest climbing record by beating Nirmal Purja from Nepal who completed all peaks in six months and one week in 2019. "They have made a summit a short while ago," Madison told Reuters adding that the Norwegian woman was "extremely tough mentally and physically". One of the sherpas, the 17-year-old Nima Rinjin Sherpa, also becomes the youngest to climb K2, Tashi said.

Persons: Kristin Harila, Nepal’s Tenjen, Tashi Lakpa Sherpa, Tashi, Nirmal Purja, Cho Oyu, Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum, Garrett Madison, Madison, Nima Rinjin Sherpa, Gopal Sharma, Michael Perry Organizations: Seven, Guinness, Madison Mountaineering, Reuters, Thomson Locations: KATHMANDU, Norwegian, Pakistan, Kathmandu, “, Nepal, Tibet, China, Annapurna, U.S

☆ Nepal bans‘non-essential’ flights by helicopters after deadly crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Gopal Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

KATHMANDU, July 13 (Reuters) - Nepal's aviation regulator has banned helicopters from conducting "non-essential" flights, including those for sight-seeing, for two months after a deadly crash in the Everest region in which six people were killed. Five Mexican tourists and the Nepali pilot of a small helicopter operated by the private Manang Air company were killed on Tuesday when their chopper crashed while returning from viewing Himalayan peaks, including Mount Everest. “Non-essential flights like mountain flights, external load operations (sling flights) and showering of flowers by helicopters (will) be restricted till September,” the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) said in a Twitter post late on Wednesday. Nepal, which is in the midst of the annual June-September monsoon season, has formed an investigation committee to find out what caused Tuesday’s crash. Nepal's worst air crash in 30 years killed 71 people in January, when a plane went down near the tourist city of Pokhara.

Persons: Mount, CAAN, Everest, Gopal Sharma, Raju Gopalakrishnan Organizations: Manang Air, Mount Everest, Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, Thomson Locations: KATHMANDU, Everest, Nepal, Pokhara

☆ Nepal retrieves bodies of six killed in helicopter crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Gopal Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] People unload the body from air transport of a person killed in a helicopter crash belonging to Manang air, at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal July 11, 2023. REUTERS/Navesh ChitrakarKATHMANDU, July 11 (Reuters) - Authorities in Nepal have retrieved the bodies of all six people killed in a helicopter crash on Tuesday, including five Mexican nationals, officials said, the latest in a series of air disasters to strike the Himalayan nation. The helicopter was operated by Manang Air, which ferries tourists seeking a view of the country's towering peaks, including Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain. "We have already dispatched four bodies to Kathmandu in a helicopter and are preparing to send the remaining two soon," Bhattarai told Reuters from the crash site. Nepal's worst air crash in 30 years killed 71 people in January, when a plane went down near the tourist city of Pokhara.

Persons: Mount Everest, Basanta Bhattarai, Bhattarai, Sita Adhikari, Nima Tshering Sherpa, Teknath Sitoula, Raju Neupane, Gopal Sharma, Shilpa Jamkhandikar, Ed Osmond, Clarence Fernandez, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, REUTERS, Authorities, Manang, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Kathmandu, Nepal, KATHMANDU, Likkhu, Solukhumbu, Nepali, Pokhara

☆ By striking down affirmative action, the Supreme Court put forth a dangerous and false ideal of 'colorblindness'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Trisha Gopal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Sotomayor and Thomas are both the likely beneficiaries of affirmative action. A student at Harvard University at a rally in support of keeping affirmative action policies outside the Supreme Court on October 31, 2022. A young boy at the University of California, Berkeley in 1995 as students and families protested to keep affirmative action policies. In a statement following the ruling, former president Barack Obama wrote, "Like any policy, affirmative action wasn't perfect. Roberts accused the colleges' affirmative action programs of "employ[ing] race in a negative manner" without any "meaningful end points."

Persons: Sotomayor, —, Clarence Thomas, Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor, colorblindness, Colorblindness, Howard Schultz, Tomi Lahren, Plessy, Ferguson, John Marshall Harlan, Antonin Scalia, Justice Roberts, Harlan's, David Butow, Roberts, Barack Obama, Michelle, haven't, Evelyn Hockstein, Michelle Obama, Katherine Phillips, Phillips Organizations: Supreme, Service, Harvard University, University of North, Latina, Yale Law School, Starbucks, Washington Post, Getty, Black, Seattle School District, University of California, Harvard, UCLA, UC, REUTERS, Princeton, Scientific, Columbia Business Locations: Berkeley, University of North Carolina, California, Idaho

☆ Activists hail Nepal ruling allowing same-sex marriage
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Gopal Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The Supreme Court has been considering a petition on the issue filed by gay right activists and on Wednesday it issued an interim order allowing for same-sex couples to register their marriages pending a final verdict. Gurung said about 200 same-sex couples were expected "to come out openly and register their marriages". In Asia, Taiwan is the only place that recognises gay marriage, though pressure is building for reform in Japan, Thailand and South Korea. Since then, some same-sex couples have held unofficial weddings and gay pride parades have been held in the capital, Kathmandu. "We will now approach the authorities to formally register our marriage," Gurung said, referring to her partner of nearly a decade, Surendra Pandey.

Persons: Pinky Gurung, Gurung, Maya Gurung, Surendra Pandey, Gopal Sharma, Robert Birsel Organizations: Blue Diamond Society, Nepal's, Thomson Locations: KATHMANDU, Nepal, Asia, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, South Korea, Kathmandu

India's top solar power producing state Rajasthan has been getting "early warnings" of technical challenges that could arise as the use of renewables increases, a federal power ministry official said. "If proper tariff structures incentivising flexible thermal generation are not introduced, it could result in slower renewable energy adoption," he said. Reuters GraphicsSOLAR, PLUS COALGreen energy capacity in Asia grew 12% in 2022, the fastest rate among major regions, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency. However, authorities in India's sun-drenched Rajasthan state are finding it increasingly difficult to control voltage fluctuations due to the inconsistent nature of solar power output. "Many of these renewable plants are not actually able to comply with such requirements," the official said.

Persons: Rystad, Wood Mackenzie, Lauri Myllyvirta, Pablo Hevia, Koch, Hevia, Florence Tan, Yuka Obayashi, Andrew Hayley, Fransiska, Gopal Sharma, Mei Mei Chu, Joyce Lee, Tony Munroe, Jamie Freed Organizations: Engie, Centre for Research, Clean Energy, Air, Reuters, International Renewable Energy Agency, International Energy Agency, Thomson Locations: China, India, Asia, Wood Mackenzie SINGAPORE, Rajasthan, Pacific, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Singapore, Tokyo, Bangkok, Beijing, Jakarta, Khanh Vu, Hanoi, Kathmandu, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul

☆ Heavy rains lash east Nepal; one dead, 25 missing
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Gopal Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

KATHMANDU, June 18 (Reuters) - One person was killed and at least 25 others were missing in flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains that battered east Nepal, officials said on Sunday, the first known fatality since the annual rains began last week. Heavy rains washed away a hydroelectric project under construction on the Hewa River in Sankhuwasabha district in eastern Nepal where 16 workers have gone missing, said Bimal Paudel, a government official. Nine people were also missing in flash floods and landslides in neighbouring Taplejung and Panchthar districts, bordering India in the east, officials said. Gaurav Dhakal of the Panchthar district said overnight rains damaged two bridges on the Mechi highway, cutting off the road link to remote Taplejung district where four people were missing. Hundreds are killed or go missing in rains which spark floods inundating villages, crops and damaging infrastructure every year in mostly mountainous Nepal, nestled between China and India.

Persons: Bimal Paudel, Gaurav Dhakal, Gopal Sharma, Rupam Jain Organizations: Thomson Locations: KATHMANDU, Nepal, Sankhuwasabha district, Taplejung, India, Panchthar, China, Kathmandu, Lincoln

☆ Photos show the 'remarkable devastation' of the I-95 collapse in Philadelphia that claimed the life of one person
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Trisha Gopal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Photos from the scene of the collapse showed billowing plumes of smoke. Firefighters stand near the collapsed part of I-95. Office of Emergency Management via APMark Fusetti, who was driving to pick up his son at the time of the incident, said he initially thought the smoke was coming from a brush fire. "I realized what happened when I looked in my rearview mirror," Fusetti told CNN's Jim Acosta. "I see 95 – all of the cars stopping and then I learned, shortly after that the road had just collapsed and what was really going on."

Persons: AP Mark Fusetti, Fusetti, CNN's Jim Acosta Organizations: Emergency Management, AP, CNN

☆ Photos show the 'remarkable devastation' of the I-95 collapse in Philadelphia which could take months to repair
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Trisha Gopal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: AP Mark Fusetti, Fusetti, CNN's Jim Acosta Organizations: Emergency Management, AP, CNN

☆ What we talk about when we talk about diversity, and CNN
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Trisha Gopal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

This week, CNN CEO Chris Licht was fired after a scathing profile was published in the Atlantic. In the profile, Licht details his own thoughts about how diversity should be defined in the media industry. In Alberta's profile, Licht claimed to be operating under his own idea of "diversity," one that does not include "virtue signaling." "I think 'Defund the police' would've been covered differently if newsrooms were filled with people who had lived in public housing," Licht continued. The diversity Licht did seem to value was geographic diversity, which can be a coded way of saying "not from the liberal coasts."

Persons: Chris Licht, Licht, MAGA, Stephen Gutowski, Trump, Tim Alberta, Jean Carroll, Kevin McCarthy, Rick Scott, Jim Acosta's, Brian Stelter's, Warner, David Zaslav, Franklin Leonard, Washington Post's Perry Bacon Jr, John Miller, Miller, Lehman, Tara Narula, Don Lemon, Reagan, Lisa Ling, Kamau Bell, New York Mondaire Jones, Jones, Kaitlin Collins, Lemon, Poppy Harlow, Collins, Laura Coates Organizations: CNN, NRA, Atlantic, Warner Bros, Discovery, Republicans, Harvard, Insider, NYPD, Stanford, Catholic, LSU, Republican, White House, Daily, White Locations: Alberta, Washington, New York City, Baton Rouge , Louisiana, Birmingham , Alabama, Mobile , Alabama, New York, Alabama, Asia

☆ CNN management focused on 'listening' and 'getting back to work' as the network moves on from Chris Licht
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Trisha Gopal | Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

A trio of longtime executives have taken charge at CNN following the exit of Chris Licht. There's a moment in Tim Alberta's brutal profile of CNN's now-former CEO Chris Licht where Licht awkwardly takes a jab at his predecessor Jeff Zucker. The following Monday, as Licht attempted to quell growing calls for his ouster, Licht told CNN staff: "As I read that article, I found myself thinking, CNN is not about me. Jeff Zucker and Chris Licht at an event in 2019, back when Zucker still ran CNN and Licht was the showrunner on The Late Show on CBS. If Licht was seen as mismanaging CNN's top talent, Entelis, in particular, is known to be the queen of talent.

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☆ Who is Amy Entelis? CNN exec who lead award-winning documentary unit will take over from Chris Licht
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Trisha Gopal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Entelis notably led the network's original series and feature-length documentary unit. Entelis, who joined joined CNN in 2012, revitalized the network's original series and feature-length documentary unit, launching high-profile shows like "Parts Unknown" with Anthony Bourdain and "Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy." Entelis notably lead the charge at CNN Films, the network's longform documentary unit. According to the company's website, Entelis has been responsible for overseeing 45 documentary series and 60 feature length films, earning CNN 100 awards and 445 nominations. Before joining CNN, Entelis spent three decades at ABC, where she managed talent for shows like "20/20," "Good Morning America," "Nightline," and "World News Tonight."

Persons: Chris Licht, Amy Entelis, Entelis, Jeff Zucker, Anthony Bourdain, Stanley Tucci, Alexei Navalny, Licht, David Zaslav, David Leavy, Zaslav's, Virginia Moseley, Eric Sherling, Chris, Zaslav Organizations: CNN, Morning, CNN Worldwide, CNN Films, BAFTA, ABC, Warner Bros, Discovery Locations: Italy

☆ CNN CEO Chris Licht has some thoughts on media's lack of diversity
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Trisha Gopal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A recent Atlantic profile of CNN CEO Chris Licht detailed problems within the network under his leadership. In the article, Licht shared his thoughts on diversity in the media industryIn recent years, CNN has come under fire for not promoting talent of color on primetime TV. In a revealing profile published by the Atlantic on Friday, CNN's CEO Chris Licht shared his thoughts on the lack of diversity in the media industry — and why he believes media has a misguided idea of what it means to be diverse. Alberta commented that Licht sought to "recruit reporters who are deeply religious and reporters who grew up on food stamps and reporters who own guns." When pressed by Alberta to elaborate on why, Licht responded, "They have a different relationship with their need with the police."

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☆ Nepali sherpa saves Malaysian climber in rare Everest 'death zone' rescue
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Gopal Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

KATHMANDU, May 31 (Reuters) - A Malaysian climber narrowly survived after a Nepali sherpa guide hauled him down from below the summit of Mount Everest in a "very rare" high altitude rescue, a government official said on Wednesday. A helicopter using a long line then lifted him from the 7,162-metre (23,500 feet) high Camp III down to base camp. [1/5] Ngima Tashi Sherpa walks as he carries a Malaysian climber while rescuing him from the death zone above camp four at Everest, Nepal, May 18, 2023 in this screengrab obtained from a handout video. Gelje said he convinced his Chinese client to give up his summit attempt and descend the mountain, saying it was important for him to rescue the climber. Tashi Lakhpa Sherpa of the Seven Summit Treks company, which provided logistics to the Malaysian climber, declined to name him, citing his client's privacy.

Persons: Gelje, Nima Tahi Sherpa, Tashi Sherpa, Bigyan Koirala, Tashi Lakhpa Sherpa, Gopal Sharma, Kirsten Donovan Organizations: REUTERS, Department of Tourism, Reuters, Seven Summit, Thomson Locations: KATHMANDU, Malaysian, Mount, III, Everest, Nepal, Malaysia

☆ US climber urges better policing to keep Everest free from garbage
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Gopal Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] American Mountaineer Garrett Madison who climbed Everest for the 13th time, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Kathmandu, Nepal May 30, 2023. "We need to find better ways to bring the waste down," Madison said in the Nepali capital Kathmandu after returning from the mountain. "We need better policing to check that every team brings down its garbage." Mountain climbing generates big income for Nepal, which issued a record 478 permits for Everest this March to May season, each costing $11,000. While hundreds of people climbed the mountain this season, 12 of them died and five were missing on its slopes.

☆ From highs to lows, Everest record breaker sees 'no future' in Nepal
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Gopal Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/5] Kami Rita Sherpa, 53, a Nepali Mountaineer who climbed Mount Everest for a record 28 times, poses for a picture at his rented apartment in Kathmandu, Nepal May 28, 2023. REUTERS/Navesh ChitrakarKATHMANDU, May 29 (Reuters) - Kami Rita Sherpa had stood at the top of world just days earlier, exultant at having summited Mount Everest for a record 28th time. The country earned $5.8 million in permit fees - $5 million from Mount Everest alone – during this year's March-May climbing season. Expeditions hiring sherpas must take out life insurance for them, but the pay out is just 1.5 million Nepali rupees (about $11,300). "This should be increased to 5 million rupees (about $38,000)," said Kami Rita, gently rubbing a bruise on his cheek.

To be sure, the April inflation data hit the UK debt market like a thunderbolt. While the headline consumer price inflation rate dropped to 8.7% from 10.1% in March, as energy prices ebbed, that was still far higher than forecast and core inflation rates hit their highest in 31 years at just under 7%. And a chief concern for many households is ongoing annual food price inflation still near 20%. Sterling and real yield spreadsNew UK gilt shock? Using 5-year real yields from the index-linked bond market, that premium jumped almost 40bp this week to its highest since last October.

☆ U.S. mountaineer climbs rare Everest 'triple crown' as death toll reaches 12
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Gopal Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

KATHMANDU, May 26 (Reuters) - A renowned U.S. mountain guide has achieved the rare Mount Everest region "triple crown" of climbing the Everest, Lhotse and Nuptse peaks in one season, a hiking firm said on Friday, as the season's death toll on the world's highest mountain hit 12. Madison, who owns the company Madison Mountaineering based in Seattle, climbed the smaller but technically difficult Nuptse peak, at 7,855 metres (25,770 feet), on May 8. British climber Kenton Cool, who climbed the triple crown in 2013, said Garrett was an "unflappable expedition leader" who quietly goes about his job. Cool, 49, last week set a new record of 17 summits of Everest, the world's highest peak, by a foreign climber. A Nepali, Kami Rita Sherpa, this week climbed Everest for a 28th time, the most by any mountaineer.

☆ Ex-British Gurkha hopes Everest climb will change disability perceptions
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( Gopal Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

KATHMANDU, May 21 (Reuters) - Hari Budha Magar, the first above the knee double amputee to scale Mount Everest, said on Sunday that his ascent would raise awareness about disability. “Gurkha veteran, Hari Budha Magar creates history … as the first ever double above-knee amputee to scale Mt Everest,” the Gurkha Brigade said in a twitter post. “I hope my climb will help change the perception of persons with disabilities,” Magar told Reuters from the base camp by phone. Mount Everest has been climbed by more than 11,000 people, including those with disabilities – like blindness and below the knee amputees. Nepal has issued 478 permits to climb Everest during the current season that ends this month.

☆ Britain’s record holding climber says Everest is 'dry, more rocky'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Gopal Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The 49-year-old Cool, who climbed the 8,849-metre (29,032 foot) peak for the first time in 2004, said the giant mountain appears to be drying now. "A general trend of the mountain is to be more rocky and less snow ... Cool said he had never seen the types of rock falls he saw on the Lhotse Face, along the route to the Everest summit, before. Also this week, a 53-year-old Nepali guide, Kami Rita Sherpa, improved his own record of most summits after scaling Everest for the 27th time. Cool said his 17th ascent might not be the last and he would return to the mountain next year.

☆ Spanish mountaineer, 84, injured just short of goal to become world's oldest climber
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A Sherpa fell on Carlos Soria, injuring his tibia, a message posted on his behalf on his Twitter and Facebook accounts said. The climber, who was on his 15th attempt on Mt Dhaulagiri, was preparing to make a push for the summit when the incident occurred, the Himalayan Times newspaper said. Sherpa guides were bringing him down to base camp, for him to be evacuated to Kathmandu by helicopter, Guragai added. Soria has successfully climbed 12 of the world's 8,000-metre peaks and had the Dhaulagiri and Tibet's Shishapangma left to become the oldest climber to reach the summits of the planet's 14-highest peaks. Writing by Emma Pinedo; Editing by Aislinn Laing and Emelia Sithole-MatariseOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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