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Climb of reckoning

Source: The Age, Nov 9 2012, 11:33am CST

Ecuador's 5897-metre Cotopaxi sits above the clouds. Photo: Corbis Dugald Jellie flirted with Cotopaxi long ago; now he's back to finish his business with the world's highest active volcano. George Leigh Mallory, the English schoolmaster cons ...

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Striving for Everest: World's highest battle

Source: CNN  |   May 25 2013, 9:52am CDT

Mount Everest is a journey that challenges human nature on every level. Sandra LeDuc captured this photo as climbers approached the Hillary Step, before the Everest summit. Click through our gallery to see more photos ...

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13 hours ago

Japanese man, 80, oldest to top Everest - for now

Source: Couer d'Alene Press  |   May 25 2013, 2:40am CDT

In this photo distributed by MIURA DOLPHINS CO., LTD., 80-year-old Japanese extreme skier Yuichiro Miura, right, who has had four heart operations in recent years, stands atop the summit of Mount Everest as he becomes the oldest person to climb t ...

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28 weeks ago


Quote:
"Have no obsession for the top"


Source: The Age

 
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22 hours ago

Mount Everest climbing season wraps up with fewer deaths than in disastrous 2012

Source: Toronto Star  |   May 24 2013, 5:45pm CDT

In the coming days, a final few brave climbers will attempt to reach the peak of Mount Everest before monsoons blow in and end the 2013 climbing season on the world’s highest mountain. But most commercial guiding c ...

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Everest men: On top of the world in 1963

Source: CNN  |   May 24 2013, 12:24pm CDT

Jim Whittaker, left, and Sherpa Nawang Gombu summited Mount Everest together in 1963. It cemented a bond for the two men. Click through our gallery to see Whittaker's time on Everest, and how his son, Leif, has followed in ...

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Sixty fascinating Everest facts

Source: The Telegraph  |   May 24 2013, 11:11am CDT

6. The Indian mathematician Radhanath Sickdhar was the first to put a figure on the estimated the mountain reached 29,002 feet (now adjusted to 29,035 feet), the highest point ever recorded on earth. 7. The first flight over Everest ...

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The Battle of Pichincha

Source: About.com: Latin American History  |   May 24 2013, 9:25am CDT

On May 24, 1822, patriots led by Antonio Jose de Sucre - Bolivar's greatest lieutenant - fought a royalist army on the slippery slopes of Pichincha Volcano just outside of Quito, Ecuador. would be a decisive one, liberating Quito and Ecuador ...

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1 day ago

Working Lives Ecuador

Source: BBC News  |   May 24 2013, 9:12am CDT

24 May 2013 Last updated at 10:12 ET Five very different people talk to Michelle Fleury (top centre)) about their working lives in Quito, Ecaudor Ecuador is engaged in a huge national experiment. The oil-r ...

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Air Force active-duty team reaches Everest's summit

Source: AZ starnet.com  |   May 24 2013, 2:08am CDT

SEATTLE - Even after repeated deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, Maj. Robert Marshall, an Air Force Special Operations pilot from Mercer Island, Wash., has rarely been content to stay at home. Instead, he has hungered to ...

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89-yr-old chronicler of Everest completes 50 years of mountain record-keeping

Source: Times of India  |   May 23 2013, 7:40pm CDT

KATHMANDU: In 1963, Elizabeth Hawley, who was then working as a part time correspondent in Kathmandu for two foreign magazines, was asked to report on the first American expedition to the Everest. That set off what was to become on ...

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