He's climbed Everest ten times, in good weather and bad, from the north and from the south, by himself and chaperoning clients. |
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So, after Everest, she resolved to climb the highest mountains on each of the seven continents. |
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The Everest greenschists are thickest on the SW face of Everest and across the western cwm on Lhotse. |
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Andrew will be giving a talk about the expedition before a special screening of an IMAX film about Everest tomorrow evening. |
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What would happen to a balloon if it was blown up in a classroom and then taken to the top of Mount Everest? |
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Veteran British mountaineer Chris Bonington, who climbed Everest in 1985, has now joined those demanding a change in the mountaineering culture. |
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To climb Everest, mountaineers must work within a very tight and strictly enforced time frame. |
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It transpired that there had been a death at Everest Base Camp, presumably from acute mountain sickness. |
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Everest straddles the Nepal-China border, and she climbed the mountain from the Nepalese side. |
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Sometimes it feels like I'm climbing Everest without Oxygen, I get so giddy with the words. |
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His film will commemorate the golden jubilee of Tensing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary's conquest of Mt. Everest. |
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It was nicknamed the Everest of canals because its 91 locks lifted boats 600 ft. |
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Because of this corruption he said it was easier to climb Everest than get aid to the poor. |
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This may seem like a simple proposition, but to a man it's like you have asked him to scale Mount Everest without oxygen. |
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While climbing Mount Everest might be out of the question, this camp will give aspiring mountaineers a taste of the climbing experience. |
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He collapsed after reaching the top of Everest and was left for dead above 8000 metres by Sherpas. |
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About 1.8 billion years ago, a meteorite or comet the size of Mount Everest slammed into what is now Canada. |
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Tamangs, the unknown Mt Everest climbers, continue to summit Mt Everest but are mainly unknown to the western world. |
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The guests will also include two explorers, friends of the bridegroom Miguel de la Quadra Salcedo, and a Mount Everest summiteer. |
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To the north the route to the summit on which pre-war Everest expeditions pinned their hopes looked in its upper reaches prohibitively steep. |
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Mount Everest and the Himalayan mountain chain did not exist at the time of Noah's Flood. |
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In the centre of the 10 km deep crater is a mountain almost as high as Mount Everest. |
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Stefan hopes to eventually attempt both the North and South Pole and finally have a crack at Everest. |
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Everest is littered with the bodies of climbers whose exhausted companions had not had the strength to pull them off the mountain. |
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Last year, for example, some enterprising young chaps went off to the Mount Everest base camp! |
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It has Everest, the Gurkhas, tourists and back packers but not much else apart from scenery. |
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I don't know what I would do after going up Everest, I certainly wouldn't want to take up ballooning. |
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A Nepalese sherpa guide has once again broken his own record, scaling Mount Everest for the 19th time. |
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The documentary, due out in the autumn, will follow a mountaineering novice on his attempt to conquer Everest. |
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Widely regarded as the Mount Everest of diveable shipwrecks is the ocean liner HMHS Britannic. |
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For me, it was just telling a story and relating the adventures and hardships while on Everest. |
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In 1975 Scott became one of the first two Britons to reach the summit of Everest via the previously unclimbed southwest face. |
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Everest is just one of many thousands of mountains in this world, most of which remain unclimbed. |
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In their lives after Everest, their reputations as decent, honest individuals remain secure. |
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In 1952, Norgay accompanied Raymond Lambert on a Swiss expedition to within 800 vertical feet of the still unclimbed summit of Everest. |
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By the mid 1980s, Sherpas summitted Everest many more times than Westerners. |
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Greetings cybernauts this is Vern Tejas with Alpine Ascents' 2003 Mt Everest ascent. |
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Nearly 300 Everest summiteers were in the Nepalese capital to attend the celebration, which ends Thursday, the organizers said. |
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Had there been a smooth political and national situation, the Everest summiteers could have been bestowed warmer honors. |
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While Everest has increased in popularity over the last 60 years, Nepalis have continued to bear much of the risk involved in summiting. |
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He had punched his ticket as a climbing Sherpa, but the next challenge was to make his mark on Everest. |
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A climber who cheated death near the summit of Everest vows to return to the world's highest peak to finish the conquest. |
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In 1990 he climbed Everest, following the footsteps of George Mallory, and lost five stones in weight through the ordeal. |
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I led a trip in the Everest National Park and two people collapsed from altitude sickness. |
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And that is a possibility, unless, as he faces Everest, McCreevy has something in his hip flask that only he and his Sherpas know about. |
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He has made 19 Himalayan expeditions, including four to Mount Everest, and made first ascents of peaks in Greenland, Patagonia and Tibet. |
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This high-altitude trek offers a dramatic hike up to 18,450-foot Kala Patar for close-up views of Everest. |
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Labor relations on Everest have been building to a flashpoint for a century. |
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And in 2005, Robert and Edwin attempted Everest without oxygen, beaten back only by gale-force wind on summit day, despite feeling strong and fit. |
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By now, everyone has seen the startling photos and video of the conga line of climbers ascending Everest earlier this month. |
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Changing the system that creates these dynamics is a much bigger issue than the climbing business of Mount Everest. |
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It reached the lowest point of the Mariana Trench in 2009, which is thousands of meters lower than Mount Everest is tall. |
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For almost a century, women like Workman continued to establish themselves in the sport, but Everest eluded them. |
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Everest conquest today is often more a triumph of modern equipment, where anyone with the money and the inclination can gulp that highly addictive, rarefied air. |
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Not only had she summited Everest five times, but she had also made an effort to know the sherpas who fix ropes on the mountain. |
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The average depth of the major oceans, beyond the continental shelves, is between 12,000 to 20,000 feet, while some trenches are as deep or deeper than Mt. Everest is high. |
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Two members of British Everest party led by Sir John Hunt, Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, became the first to climb the hitherto unconquered peak. |
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Prince Harry will feature in a new documentary about the team of wounded war heroes who attempted to climb Mount Everest. |
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High on the slopes of Everest, some 70 sherpas surged over a ridge to see the beating. |
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Climbers atop Everest phone home via portable satellite dishes, while pocket-size global positioning systems guide mushers on the Yukon Quest trail. |
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The proliferation of communication technology now commonplace on remote expeditions has taken Everest voyeurism to new heights. |
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In the street the other day, I saw a couple of new arrivals in town who had the strained features of people who might have just descended the south face of Everest. |
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The deep crevasses and moving ice in the Kumbu glacier make it the most dangerous part of Mount Everest and it has already claimed the lives of nine climbers. |
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To allow the dumping vessel access up to the platform both at Everest and Lomond it will be necessary to lower one or two of the anchor wires of the respective flotels. |
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Ahead was a vertiginous climb the likes of which should be reserved for Chris Bonnington or one of those Everest chappies with their oxygen tanks. |
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Everest summiteer and author of Military Mountainteering, Bronco Lane, says Jeremy writes with experience to set the scene for a mountaineering tragedy. |
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Everest also boasts a well-established support infrastructure of guides and Sherpas who set up tents, fix ropes, and ferry canisters of supplemental oxygen to the high camps. |
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But in 1958 he got the chance to attend the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling, run at the time by Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who summited Everest with Hillary. |
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As mountaineers ducked out of them and trekked toward Everest, she dreamed of following. |
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We combine field relations, structural geology, petrology, thermobarometry and geochronology to interpret the tectonic evolution of the Everest Himalaya. |
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He was a member of the successful Irish Everest mountain climbing team. |
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It was an unforgettable experience to see Everest at close quarters. |
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More deaths on Everest underscore its problems with overcrowding and unstable weather and geography, writes Nick Heil. |
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As Hill has suffered from overexposure, other significant women of Everest have gone unnoticed, especially among the sherpanis. |
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Many climbers, including Hillary and the legendary Reinhold Messner, have mourned the disrepute brought on Everest by some fee-paying guided groups. |
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Quartz, microcline or orthoclase and plagioclase are ubiquitous in the Everest granites, which also contain varying amounts of tourmaline, muscovite, biotite and garnet. |
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The anti-gun contingent stands before an Everest of obstacles, a wall of patriotic babble about Second Amendment privileges. |
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At this writing, 334 permits to climb Everest have been issued for this spring season. |
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The tragedy of 16 Sherpas killed was the biggest single loss of life in the history of climbing Everest. |
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The top of Everest was visited by 234 people in 2012 on the same day, most of them paid clients. |
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The prince got winded and red-faced in a hurry when he got on a treadmill to promote an Everest climb by charity he supports. |
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For the reward will be a classic view of Everest and the Khumbu icefall. |
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Everest has been climbed by more than 1,300 men and women, including nearly 80 Japanese, since Hillary and Tenzing first set foot on the roof of the world. |
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First, Bradey met with Elizabeth Hawley, the gatekeeper of Everest records. |
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If anyone could have stopped the Everest brawl of April 27, 2013, it was Arnot. |
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It includes four of the six highest mountains Everest, Lhotse, Makalu, and Cho Oyu. |
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Everest handymen are trained professionals and will endeavour to complete any task, no matter how big or small, during the day. |
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Nepal, which had not previously been climbed by foreigners, contained six inviting peaks over 26,000ft besides Everest and Kangchenjunga. |
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By convention, the prominence of Mount Everest, the Earth's highest mountain, is taken to equal the elevation of its summit above sea level. |
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When they reached the summit of Everest in May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay cemented a bond that would last to the grave. |
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Mount Everest is 29,035ft high and Inglis has spent a gruelling 40 days on the mountain. |
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But there are also concerns for the Annapurna and Everest regions, which see the highest numbers of trekkers and mountaineers. |
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Scottish mountain climber Bob Kerr assimilated cosmic radiation readings on an expedition to Everest in May last year, the BBC reported. |
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Josh Fink, who had a successful mountain climbing career, is issuing comment on an 80-year-old's quest to summit Mount Everest. |
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This is as likely to happen as I am to scale Mount Everest on a pogo stick. |
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He met his future wife, Mary Everest, there in 1850 while she was visiting her uncle John Ryall who was Professor of Greek. |
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Clear weather and low winds on Mount Everest last week allowed more than 100 climbers to scale the peak from the Nepalese side. |
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In mountaineering, Nazir Sabir, Hassan Sadpara, and Samina Baig are the only Pakistanis to have climbed Mount Everest. |
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His first experience with climbing on Everest was as part of a base camp group that helped set up tents and supplies. |
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Parore left New Zealand on March 27 for Nepal to spend a month acclimatising at the Mt Everest base camp before trying to summit it. |
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Mount Everest is 8,848 metres above sea level and Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest tower, is 828 metres high. |
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All the time you are surrounded by the rocky peaks of Nuptse, Lhotse, Amadablam and of course Everest. |
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Kenton and Sherpa Dorje Gylgen were midway through their world-first six-day summiting of Himalayan giants Nuptse, Everest and Lhotse. |
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Over into Nepal there are distant views of the Kangshung face of Everest, Makalu and Lhotse, as well as extensive views into Sikkim and Bhutan. |
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Snowdon was used by Edmund Hillary and his group during preparations for their successful 1953 expedition to climb Mount Everest. |
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On Friday, the Trekking Association of Nepal awarded Appa this year's Everest International Award. |
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There's the Boa Costrictor, Dirty Ballerina, Funky Monkey, Fire Walker and a rather worrying one near the end called Everest. |
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The Queen's University Mountaineering Club is notable for producing three Everest summiteers including Ireland's first, Dawson Stelfox. |
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In 1953, his father, Tenzing Norgay, and Sir Edmund Hillary were the first humans to ascend to the top of Everest and live to tell about it. |
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Hillary thus became the first man to stand at both poles and on the summit of Everest. |
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Tailor and fashion designer Timothy Everest began his professional career working as a sales assistant at a branch of Hepworths in the town. |
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Sandy Irvine, a participant of the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, was born in Birkenhead. |
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This time he is climbing Kangchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain, which is nothing to a man who once climbed Everest. |
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Michael became the 162nd person to die on Mount Everest after his record-breaking ascent. |
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Since then, he has also reached the summits of Cerro Aconcagua, Vinson Massif, Elbrus, Mount Everest, Carstensz Pyramid and Mount Kosciuszko. |
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In addition to Alaska's Denali, the seven summits include Everest, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Carstenz Pyramid, Aconcagua and Vinson Massif. |
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Everest contextualizes the war against Iraq by discussing the political history of the Iraqi state since its inception. |
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For example, the encirclement parent of Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps, is Mount Everest. |
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A 115,259 SF lease for Everest Reinsurance at Westgate Corporate Center I in Bernards Twp. |
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And the less-powerful palmtops are so light you would hardly notice you were carrying them even if you were on Everest. |
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Sincerest apologies from Everest, which admits that a damp course was, by an extraordinary oversight, not included. |
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To settle a dispute with China, Nepal is remeasuring the height of Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth. |
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Typical trekking regions in Nepal are Annapurna, Dolpo, Langtang, Manaslu, Kangchenjunga, Mount Everest. |
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For a month last summer she crawled over and up the ice and rock of the mighty Ngozumpa glacier in Nepal, almost within spitting distance of Mount Everest. |
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Each coverage was projected using Polyconic Projection and Spheroid Everest geoid system for area estimation of different classes for a particular map. |
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Since 2001, Indian Army has already summitted six out of these fourteen peaks viz Mount Everest, Kanchenjunga, Lhotse, Cho Oyu, Annapurna and now Dhaulagiri. |
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Avid skydivers or bungee jumpers might not think anything of it but those who are used to having two feet on the ground may feel like they're battling Mount Everest. |
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Everest summiter Gary Guller and author Phillip Macko for a night that will change your life, empower your goals and teach you the secrets of self reinvention. |
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Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest. |
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In 1963, when he was descending from a successful climb of Mount Everest, he accidentally knocked his oxygen cylinder's regulator against some ice. |
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The closures include Heald College campuses in California, Hawaii and Oregon, as well as Everest and WyoTech schools in California, Arizona and New York. |
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Still, for every 30 people who seek to scale Everest, one dies. |
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The thirty four member expedition team has been in Base camp area of the Mount Everest since the 11th of last month and has also been involved in a cleaning campaign. |
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In May 2002, he stood high atop Mount Everest and has since climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Elbrus, Mount Aconcagua, Mount Kosciusko and Mount Vinson. |
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On 29 May 2013 it has been exactly 60 years ago that Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first humans on the summit of the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest. |
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Among some of the most inspiring photographs of Everest I have ever seen, there are pictures of the local people and of the legendary sherpa Tenzing. |
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He is a curly-haired schoolboy barely in his teens, but 13-year-old Jordan Romero from California has become the youngest person to climb Mount Everest. |
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I reread the names of those who eventually conquered Everest 60 years ago and left their signatures on the ceiling, including the summiteers Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing. |
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A MOUNTAIN climber who contracted severe altitude sickness after trying to conquer Mount Everest has been told he could be left disabled for life. |
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He is also the first Indian to summit Mt Vinson Massif, the tallest peak in Antarctica and the first person from Andhra Pradesh to scale the Everest. |
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The Seven Summits comprises Cerro Aconcagua, Denali, Vinson Massif, Elbrus, Kilimanjaro, Mount Everest and either Carstensz Pyramid or Mount Kosciuszko. |
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When Apollo missions were blasting off on a regular basis between 1969 and 1972, it seemed likely that moonwalkers would become as common as Everest mountaineers. |
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Everest with First Ascent Guide Melissa Arnot and will return to the Himalaya with Melissa later this month to climb Makalu, the fifth highest mountain in the world. |
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Ascending Mount Everest can be life-or-death for an inexperienced climber. |
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The highest mountain in Southeast Asia is Hkakabo Razi at 5,967 meters and can be found in northern Burma sharing the same range of its parent peak, Mount Everest. |
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The Chinese climber, accompanied by six sherpas, is attempting to scale Everest while the US mountaineer is heading alone for neighbouring Lhotse peak. |
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Much of Husa's music is available on recordings issued by CBS Masterworks, Vox, Louisville, Panton, Phoenix, Crystal, CRI, Everest, Grenadilla, Sheffield, and other labels. |
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On May 23, 1996, filmmaker David Breashears and an IMAX film crew stood on top of the world, only days after the worst climbing tragedy in the history of Everest. |
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It is led by two-time Everest Summiteer Dawa Steven Sherpa, a passionate advocate of climate change issues who has also seen the impact of climate change on the Himalayas. |
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Those who attempt the summit are experienced climbers who will tackle other Himalayan peaks as well, said Dawa Steven Sherpa, two-time summiteer of Everest from Kathmandu. |
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The 14-day expedition ended on March 10 after the group reached the 5,360 metre Gokyo Ri summit facing Mount Everest, Lhotse, Makalu, Kangchenjunga. |
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