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Half the world missing from international TV news (The Funny Side)
Shanghai :: China | 2 months ago
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A Malaysian friend watching with me said she'd been at a meeting of members of The Meeja, a shadowy international group of data-dealers whose mission is to shine the Bright Light of Truth and Justice into dark areas, preferably if celebrity cleavage
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Atop Everest, two Sherpas and a luxury watchmaker forged a friendship that would change their lives
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 10 months ago
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Some student reporters pursued stories outside the San Francisco Bay Area on topics that would be of interest to Peninsula Press readers...Thundu and his fellow guide Ang Namgel Sherpa led a 2010 expedition that changed their lives and gave them new
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Left for dead
Canberra :: Australia | 1 year ago
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He savoured the view across the top of the surrounding mountains. Even the nearby Makalu, the world's fifth-highest peak, seemed dwarfed from this vantage point. He'd previously climbed some of the mountains below and had looked up, imagining this
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The Family, Way Down the Mountain
Karāchi :: Pakistan | almost 3 years ago
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July 24, 2010 Wearing a gabardine suit and hobnail boots, George Mallory climbed for the top of Everest in June 1924 but exhausted and frozen he fell in the darkness somewhere below the summit and was never seen alive again. In 1995, on K2, Alison
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Sherpas find body of Swiss killed on Everest
Locarno :: Switzerland | 3 years ago
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Uwe Gianni Goltz of canton Ticino died of exhaustion in May 2008 on his way down the mountain. Hours earlier he had reached the 8,848-metre summit without using supplemental oxygen. It is unusual for bodies to be brought down from the highest reaches
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South Korean woman starts final push for 14 peaks record
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 3 years ago
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A South Korean climber will on Tuesday make a much-anticipated push to the summit of Annapurna, the final hurdle in her quest to become the first woman to scale the world's 14 highest peaks. Oh Eun-Sun originally planned to make her summit push at
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Sherpas to clean Everest peak, retrieve bodies
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 3 years ago
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A Nepalese expedition left Saturday on a high-risk Everest clean-up to bring down garbage left by climbers and possibly retrieve the bodies of some who died in the "death zone" of the world’s highest peak. Twenty professional Nepali climbers,
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Cured leprosy patients ready to conquer Mt Everest
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 3 years ago
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But the past has inspired him to undertake a unique venture -- Shah has announced an expedition to Mt Everest, the tallest peak in the world, by cured leprosy patients. "The villagers demanded that my parents throw me out," remembers Shah. "Otherwise,
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Sherpa team plans to clean Everest's death zone
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 3 years ago
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Nepal (AP) — A team of 20 Sherpa mountaineers plans to remove bodies of climbers who died in Mount Everest's "death zone," a treacherous stretch that has claimed some 300 lives since 1953, the team leader said Monday. The team
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Josh Lewsey's Everest diary: Base camp
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 3 years ago
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After yesterday's blow out we hit the hay early and slept right through until the sunlight engulfed my tent at 6.00 this morning. Today was marked down as a rest day to enable our bodies to gain the most from the altitude we were subjected to
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