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Five Russian mountaineers have died on Mount Dhaulagiri, the world's seventh-highest peak after apparently slipping and falling, an expedition organizer in Nepal announced on Tuesday. The climbers ...

"They might have been tied to the same rope," he speculated to the outlet. "One of them could have slipped on the slope and all five fell together." The group of climbers were reported missing on ...

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KATHMANDU, Nepal — Five Russian mountaineers who appeared to have fallen on the world's seventh-highest peak have died. An expedition organizer confirmed the deaths. They were climbing Mount ...

A recent UN report states that the “world’s population is expected to continue growing for another 50 or 60 years, reaching a peak of around 10.3 billion people in the mid-2080s, up from 8.2 ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Five Russian mountaineers who appeared to have slipped and fallen on the world’s seventh-highest peak have died, an expedition organizer in Nepal said Tuesday.