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Mount Everest is growing taller every day due to an unexpected geological force
Mount Everest’s towering height isn’t shaped by tectonic forces alone. Its continued growth owes a quiet debt to nearby ...
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A human foot found on Mount Everest is renewing the peak's biggest mystery
More than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest, according to Nepalese officials, so finding human remains on the mountain is not exactly uncommon. However, the discovery of a frozen ...
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Excerpt: What Jon Krakauer’s “Into Thin Air” Got Wrong About Everest
Released in 1997 the year after he was part of a disastrous Mount Everest expedition that resulted ... to judge their motives ...
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Sherpas on Everest
Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, hearing of the continuing British climbing expeditions to Mount Everest, came to India in 1933, hoping to be taken on for that year's expedition. He was not among those ...
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The complicated way climbers go to the bathroom on Mount Everest
Eddie Bauer aplinists Adrian Ballinger and Cory Richards just returned from an incredible journey up Mount Everest, which they captured in it's entirety through Snapchat via their EverestNoFilter ...
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“Everest” true story: Here’s what happened to the real Mount Everest disaster climbers (plus a side-by-side look at the film’s cast)
Jake Gyllenhaal as Scott Fischer in 'Everest' ...
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Ex-Nasa astronaut Scott Parazynski shares his journey from space to top of Mount Everest
A couple of months after retiring from the US space agency, Parazynski attempted to summit Mount Everest but, at 7,470 metres (24,500 feet), was forced to turn around because of a back injury.