Videos tagged with "winter"

Trekkers pass through spring snow in Sagarmatha National Park [01:23]
Team members making their way through late winter early spring snow in the Sagarmatha National Park, towards the Base Camp of Everest. They pass through glorious forests of Rhododendrons while yaks carry their rations and other camp gear. The climatic conditions in the Sagarmatha region change without prior signs. The team gears up for the summit attempts as the weather clears up and the men set out for the top. There is no time to waste, it's a now or never situation as the team's climbing permit expires by the end of the month May 2001. Indian Army added another feather to its cap in May 2001, when its mountaineers successfully scaled Mount Everest and put a record eight members and seven Sherpas on the summit. This is the largest number of summiteers on Mount Everest in an Indian expedition. The mighty mountain ranges of the Himalayas have, over the centuries, inspired not only man's imagination and spiritual quest, but also his spirit of adventure. Mount Everest, the tallest of the peaks of the Himalayas as also the whole world, stood in its unattainable isolation for thousands of years, till Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary conquered it in 1953. Since then, at least a thousand climbers have set foot on it. That at least 200 have lost their lives while trying to scale the peak speaks of the infinite dangers involved in the task. The Indian Army Mount Everest Expedition was flagged off by the Chief of the Army Staff on 1st March 2001 at New Delhi. It was led by Col ...
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Everest Trek - Nepal - Mountain wild life [00:17]
The animals on the side of a very steep hill. In the winter season it must be almost imposssible or very deadly.
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Two weeks trekking the Annapurna Circuit in 4 minutes [03:53]
110 miles through the Annapurna Himalayas in the middle of January.
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Gosainkund Winter Trek [00:21]
The trail out of Dhunche is mostly downhill until we cross the Ghatte Khola.
Tags: nepal, trekking, gosainkund, langtang

Sunset on the Annapurna Range from Chitwan National Park [00:29]
The amazing sunset in the winter on the Annapurna Range in Nepal
Tags: Mountain Range Sunset, Himalaya, Nepal, Chitwan