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‘We knocked the bastard off’, the scaling voice of the great legend resonated over the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest in 1953 after his first ever conquest over the terrain. Alas! The voice has silenced forever with Edmund Hillary bidding his...
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Mobile phone networks are being installed virtually everywhere to enable travellers to keep in touch with their family, friends and work. Until recently hostile...
made popular Sep 10 2008
Limping through ice on frostbitten feet, the last survivor of the mountaineering disaster that killed 11 climbers on K2 reached base camp Tuesday as clouds and snow...
made popular Aug 6 2008
AP, Islamabad
At least nine climbers are feared dead and five others are missing on K-2, the world’s second-highest peak and long considered even more challenging than Mount...
made popular Aug 3 2008
AP, Islamabad
At least nine climbers are feared dead and five others are missing on the world’s second-highest peak in northern Pakistan, which is regarded as more challenging...
made popular Aug 3 2008
For decades it remained unconquered. It took a superhuman effort by Hillary and Norgay to finally reach the peak of the world. But now with latest technology and...
made popular Jun 24 2008
AP, Katmandu
An American climber has scaled Mount Everest for the 10th time, becoming the first non-Nepalese to achieve the feat, mountaineering officials said Wednesday.David Hahn,...
made popular May 28 2008
AP, Katmandu
Mountaineering officials say a 76-year-old Nepalese man has scaled Mount Everest to become the oldest person to climb the world’s highest mountain.Nepal’s...
made popular May 25 2008
AP, Katmandu
Mountaineering officials say a 76-year-old Nepalese man has scaled Mount Everest to become the oldest person to climb the world’s highest mountain.Nepal’s...
made popular May 25 2008
AP, Katmandu
A veteran Sherpa guide scaled Mount Everest for a record 18th time Thursday, Nepalese mountaineering officials said.Appa, who like most Sherpas goes by only one name,...
made popular May 22 2008
AP, Katmandu
A mountaineering official says a veteran Sherpa guide has scaled Mount Everest for a record 18th time.Ang Tshering of the Nepal Mountaineering Association says Appa...
made popular May 22 2008
AP, Wellington
A granddaughter of Mount Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary has taken up the family cause of helping the Sherpa people of Nepal, New Zealand’s domestic news...
made popular May 19 2008
AP, Katmandu
Nepal allowed the climbing season on Mount Everest to resume Friday after blocking access to hundreds of climbers so a Chinese team carrying the Olympic flame could...
made popular May 9 2008
AP, Beijing
The Olympic flame has reached the peak of Mount Everest.Live television footage showed a Chinese mountaineering team holding up a specially designed torch along with...
made popular May 8 2008
AP, Beijing
The Olympic torch moved to within striking distance of the summit of Mount Everest on Wednesday, with the flame likely to reach the top of the world’s tallest...
made popular May 7 2008
Mount Everest by far is the highest point on earth. But Mount everest could look dwarfish if this outrageous yet supposedly planet friendly concept sees the light of...
made popular May 5 2008
Feeling triumphant after the successful entry of the Olympic torch to Chinese soil through Hong Kong, the government announced the formation of a 50-member team that...
made popular May 5 2008
AP, Beijing
Chinese mountaineers made final preparations Wednesday to take the Olympic flame up Mount Everest in a grand but contentious feat that is being accorded an unusual...
made popular Apr 30 2008
AP, Beijing
China has stepped up persecution of Buddhist monks with mass detentions, Tibet activists said Wednesday, as China prepares to take the Olympic torch to the top of Mount...
made popular Apr 30 2008
AP, Katmandu
Nepal has imposed a near-blackout on communications on its side of Mount Everest, trekking company officials said Tuesday, hours after the government acknowledged it...
made popular Apr 29 2008
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A granddaughter of Mount Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary has taken up the family cause of helping the Sherpa people of Nepal, New Zealand’s domestic news...
made popular May 19 2008
AP, Wellington
The ashes of Sir Edmund Hillary, the renowned adventurer who became the first to conquer Mount Everest, were scattered into the sea by his family Friday in a private...
made popular Feb 29 2008
First person to scale the highest peak in the world, Sir Edmund Hillary, also worried for the threat that global warming poses to Mt Everest and other mountain peaks,...
made popular Jan 12 2008
Another four months and you would have a highway leading you all the way to Mount Everest. Though it won’t take you right to the top of world’s highest...
made popular Jun 20 2007
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