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Nepal holds Everest 60th anniversary celebrations

Celebrations are being held in Nepal to mark the 60th anniversary of the first climb to the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest peak.
Events to mark the achievement by Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay include a high-altitude marathon and a clean-up at mountain's base camp.
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Journalist recalls the battle to break Everest story

As Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to scale Mount Everest 60 years ago, a fierce battle raged among journalists vying to report the story.
For decades, Everest had been the ultimate climbing goal and reporters were desperate to break the news first.
The Times newspaper sponsored the expedition and had exclusive access to the climbing team.
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Dead Sea Monument installed in Mount Everest region

A monument containing a stone from the Dead Sea [bordering Jordan and Israel] has been placed in Nepal's Mount Everest region in a tourism initiative linking the lowest and highest points on Earth.
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Women officers of Indian Army scale Everest

Captain Smitha along with six other women officers of the Indian Army achieved this feat by not only challenging steep heights of the mountain but also its harsh weather conditions, strong winds, blinding blizzards and avalanches.
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Everest pioneer Stephen Venables marks anniversary

The first Briton to climb Mount Everest without the use of supplementary oxygen is planning to mark the 25th anniversary of his ascent.
Stephen Venables, from Bath, scaled the summit in 1988 alone, after climbing with a trio of American-Canadian men on a new route up the Kangshung Face.
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Team of American scientists and researchers heads to Everest to study effects of high altitude

A team of American scientists and researchers flew to the Mount Everest region on Friday to set up a laboratory at the base of the worlds highest mountain to study the effects of high altitude on humans.
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Nepal in new bid to finally settle Mount Everest height

Nepal is seeking help from the international community to settle a long-running dispute about the height of Mount Everest, officials have said.
Although China had argued about how the peak's height should be measured, the countries agreed Nepal's figure of 8,848m (in 2010.
The dispute has never seemed fully settled...
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Early expeditions to Everest

It is 90 years since the first British expedition to the world's highest mountain - but the jagged peaks and deep crevasses of the Himalayas successfully defended Everest's summit from human footsteps for another three decades.
To mark the anniversary of the first trip in 1921, the Royal Geographical Society is staging an exhibition of the most evocative expedition images - culminating with Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary's successful 1953 ascent. Take a look - with mountaineer and travel photographer Martin Hartley.
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Everest webcam

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