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Mountains near Gulmarg ski resort.
At least 17 soldiers were killed in an avalanche in the heavily fortified zone along the Indian Pakistan boder in Kashmir, close to Gulmarg ski resort on Monday.
The avalanche was set off by soldiers skiing close to an Indian Army high-altitude training camp. Ski school, mountain guides and others from Gulmarg went to help in the rescue effort.
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Eight members of the Indian army plan to ski down Mount Everest in September, almost doubling the number of people who are believed to have already ski down Everest (about half of them, unsuccessfully – with a number never reaching the bottom).
The eight will be part of a larger team of 28 members of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police who will all climb to Everest’s 8,850m summit and collect rubbish left lying on the top of the mountain by previous expeditions. The 20 non-skiers will return with the collected rubbish on foot.
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Deutsche Press reports that the resort was destroyed by loyalists of local cleric Maulana Fazlullah last year and subsequently used as a Taliban head quarters and training ground.
Pakistan reports that more than two million people have been displaced and more than 1,100 insurgents and over 60 troops killed in the current offensive by the Pakistan army aimed at re-capturing this part of the country from the Taliban.
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Despite the burning and looting of facilities at Pakistan’s only commercial ski area last year by religious extremists, the troubled Malam Jabba ski area in the North West Frontier province, the country’s military continue to compete in annual competition on other ski slopes which they operate.
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Islamic fundamentalists attacked buildings at Pakistan’s Malam Jabba ski resort last week. Pakistan’s only international standard resort is located in the Swat Valley, 300k m (190 miles) from capital Islamabad and close to the Afghan border.
The region was once the country’s leading summer tourist destinations due to its great natural beauty.
CNN reports that the Islamic militants, who wish to establish fundamentalist Sharia Islamic law, forced their way in to the hotel, looted it and then set it on fire, causing what local police described as “Significant damage.”
The ski area was originally built in 1988 in cooperation with Austrian specialists. It remained ‘mothballed’ for a decade before finally being opening by Pakistan’s president in the late 1990s. It is equipped with two chair lifts, a hotel, restaurants and a coffee shop.
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With the end of March, SportsRebel Media Ventures (SMV) Ltd. is happy to announce that it broke an all time record for monthly unique visitors with a whopping 666.78 % to SkiRebel Magazine in March 2008 to the same period a year earlier. This staggering growth was led with incredible traffic increases of more than 2000 % on March 28th alone.
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Since the relaunch of the popular skirebel.com portal in February 2007, SkiRebel Magazine has managed to attract more than 22,658 unique visitors with some 67,000 page impressions.
Since migrating the PDF only online ski magazine to a more user friendly online format, magazine management is ecstatic with the initial results. So far 2008, SportsRebel Media Ventures (SMV) Ltd., the main shareholder of the online property is forecasting tripling online visits. So far the first week forecast is blowing that forecast out of the water.
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