Search｜Photos & Images & Videos｜KYODO NEWS IMAGES INC

60th anniv. of Mt. Everest 1st conquest

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Family members of late Edmund Hillary and late Tenzing Norgay, who reached the summit of Mt. Everest on May 29, 1953, take part in a parade in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 29, 2013, to celebrate the diamond jubilee of the first conquest of Mt. Everest.

E

60th anniv. of Mt. Everest 1st conquest

KATHMANDU, Nepal - A parade is held in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 29, 2013, to celebrate the diamond jubilee of the first conquest of Mt. Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on May 29, 1953.

E

Japanese alpinist Miura, son

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Japanese alpinist and professional skier Yuichiro Miura (L) and his son Gota visit the Japanese Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 27, 2013, after jointly climbing Mt. Everest. At 80, the elder Miura became the oldest person on May 23 to reach the summit of the 8,848-meter mountain.

E

Miura after climbing Everest

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Yuichiro Miura holds a press conference in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 26, 2013, after traveling from a base camp of Mt. Everest. Miura and his team reached the summit of Mt. Everest on May 23, making Miura, an 80-year-old Japanese alpinist and professional skier, the oldest person ever to scale the 8,848-meter mountain.

E

Miura after climbing Everest

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Yuichiro Miura (L) holds a press conference in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 26, 2013, after traveling from a base camp of Mt. Everest. Miura and his team reached the summit of Mt. Everest on May 23, making Miura, an 80-year-old Japanese alpinist and professional skier, the oldest person ever to scale the 8,848-meter mountain. To the right is his second son Gota, who also climbed the mountain peak.

E

Miura after climbing Everest

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Yuichiro Miura holds a press conference in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 26, 2013, after traveling from a base camp of Mt. Everest. Miura and his team reached the summit of Mt. Everest on May 23, making Miura, an 80-year-old Japanese alpinist and professional skier, the oldest person ever to scale the 8,848-meter mountain.

E

Brother of falsely-convicted Napali

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Photo taken in June 2012 in Kathmandu, Nepal, shows Indra Prasad Mainali, brother of Govinda Prasad Mainali, who had been falsely convicted in Japan on a murder charge.

E

73-yr-old Japanese woman conquers Mt. Everest

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Japanese climber Tamae Watanabe holds a copy of a Guinness World Records certificate during a press conference in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 25, 2012, after scaling Mt. Everest, the world's tallest mountain at the age of 73, becoming the oldest woman to achieve the feat at the age of 73 on May 19, 2012.

E

A-bomb exhibition in Nepal

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (L) explains a display panel to visitors at a photo exhibition on the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at Tribhuvan University in the suburbs of Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 18, 2011. Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav conferred the inaugural Gautam Buddha International Peace Award on Taue and former Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba in recognition of their role as leaders of the global Mayors for Peace movement.

E

Nepal police break up anti-China protests, detain 113 Tibetans

KATHMANDU, Nepal - A Tibetan youth is taken into police custody in Kathmandu on March 30 after Nepalese police broke up anti-China protests and detained 113 Tibetan exiles in the Nepalese capital. The Tibetan community in Kathmandu has been staging protests on a regular basis since March 10 against the Chinese crackdown on demonstrations in Tibetan capital Lhasa.

E

Nepal imposes limited curfew in capital

KATHMANDU, Nepal - A policeman keeps vigil near the Royal Palace in Kathmandu late at night on June 6 as a limited curfew was imposed from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. in the capital and adjoining Lalitpur.