The death of two schoolboys while rowing in the Rabindra Sarobar on Saturday afternoon has made several schools review their systems and ensure stricter norms before allowing children to participate i...
Khangchendzonga Conservation Committee (KCC), a non-profit organisation based in Sikkim, has provided six oxygen cylinders to aid trekkers on the popular trail through the Khangchendzonga National Par...
It takes five days to trek from Rimbick to Sandakphu, Bengal’s highest point, but on Sunday morning runners will look to cover this 65km hill trail in eight hours.
The event has been christened...
Tents can be pitched outside Guras Kunj by paying a fee, payable at the sanctuary gate
The Forest Barrack is an alternative option to stay at the sanctuary, but it is primarily for fore...
It had been a good two years since the members of the Tour Cultural Society and Travello (TCST), a mountaineering club in Kolkata, had been on a summit expedition. Their last one had been around Augus...
A trek to Tonglu and Tumling can be a rewarding experience for first-time trekkers and encourage them to embark on more such journeys.
If you wish to travel the entire route by car from Siliguri, the...
Mountaineers from Bengal said restrictions on using good communication devices is a major challenge faced in the Indian Himalayas.
The death of 10 trekkers from Bengal in two accidents in Uttarakhand...
The bodies of five trekkers from Bengal who died on a trekking expedition in Bageshwar district of Uttarakhand arrived in Kolkata on Thursday.
The bodies of Sagar Dey, 27, Sarit Sekhar Das, 37, and C...
To visit the Indian village of Malana deep in the Himalayas, a COVID-19 vaccination team scrambled over a landslide that blocked the road the day before, scaled a retaining wall and then began a three...
Sambhu Roy Chowdhury, 62, a Calcutta trekker who had gone missing for nearly 24 hours at Sandakphu, situated at an altitude of more than 11,000 feet, braved the cold winter night on empty stomach and&...