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Japan's Miura raring to conquer Everest at 80
Miura :: Japan | 5 days ago
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A Japanese mountaineer who just lost his title as the oldest man to climb Mount Everest to a Nepalese fellow septuagenarian vowed Tuesday to do one better and scale the peak aged 80. Japan's Yuichiro Miura, 77, was officially the oldest man to have reached...
Tags: Yuichiro Miura, Mount Everest, Japan, Miura, Everest, Keizo Miura, The Man Who Skied Down Everest, Human Interest
Oldest Mt Everest climber recognised
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 7 days ago
Credibility Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal was among several dignitaries at a function in Kathmandu to congratulate Min Bahadur Sherchan, now 78, after he received an official certificate from Guinness...I was determined to either climb the peak or die trying,"...
Tags: nepal, mt everest, Min Bahadur Sherchan, Mount Everest, Mt. Everest, oldest man, Yuichiro Miura, Kathmandu, Apa Sherpa, Himalaya, Everest, Human Interest, Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, Newar
IAF Women officers train for Everest expedition
An all-woman IAF mountaineering team of twenty officers will endeavour to scale the Mt. Everest (8848M) in 2011. The team is currently undertaking several expeditions to prepare them to endure the physical and mental challenges that have to be...
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EVEREST: THE PEAK OF THE WORLD
The stunning beautiful, Mt Everest is the highest peak of the world. It is 29,028 feet or 8848 metre high and lies in the central north of Nepal near China border. This is the season of the climbing so a large number of climbers have started to pack...
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Mystery over young climbers' fatal fall
London :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
Credibility French police were yesterday trying to piece together the final moments of the youngest man ever to conquer Everest who fell to his death while climbing with a friend in the Alps. Rob Gauntlett and James Atkinson, both 21, fell 600m, while attempting...
Tags: the, everest, highest, James Atkinson, peak, Rob Gauntlett
Picking 7 new Natural Wonders
Geneva :: Switzerland | 10 months ago
Credibility The Grand Canyon, Mount Everest and Loch Ness will vie with more than 200 other spectacular places in the next phase of the global competition for the New 7 Wonders of Nature, organizers said. The 261 nominees from 222 countries include some of the most...
Tags: the, everest, peak, Dead Sea, nature wonders
NASA: The View from Everest
What would it be like to stand atop the tallest mountain on Earth? Visible are snow peaked mountains near and far, tremendous cliffs, distant plateaus, the tops of clouds, and a dark blue sky. Mt. Everest stands 8.85 kilometers above sea level, roughly...
Sir Ranulph abandons summit climb
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility Sir Ranulph had reached the final stopping off point in the ascent after traversing the "death zone", but had to turn back before reaching the 8,850m summit Having set off from base camp on Tuesday, Sir Ranulph had reached the final stopping off point...
Tags: everest, mountain, Ranulph Fiennes, Sir Ranulph, Mount Everest, death zone, oldest briton, final stopping, Mt.Everest
Calgary man conquers Everest
Calgary :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility Starkly reminded of the deadly challenge ahead, Calgarian Andrew Brash was yesterday making his second bid for Mt. Everest's summit two years after he aborted an attempt to save another climber. Brash's students at Terry Fox junior high school and is...
Tags: everest, climber, top of the world, mountain, Calgarian Andrew Brash, Mount Everest, Mr. Brash
First Oriya woman on top of world
Dhenkānāl :: India | about 1 year ago
Credibility Kalpana from Dhenkanal third time lucky to reach Mount Everest Bhubaneswar, May 22: The town of Kumbharsahi in Dhenkanal is busy celebrating today as its star resident Kalpana Dash reached the top of the world yesterday at 11.30am. On Wednesday morning,...
Tags: everest, mount everest, top of the world, mountain, Mount Everest Bhubaneswar, Kalpana Dash, Orissa, Dhenkanal district
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