Mount Everest claims eight lives as climbers risk all for the summit
Climbers from China, Germany, Canada and South Korea have been killed as hundreds made a bid to summit Mount Everest at the weekend.
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Granny proves she's not over the hill by summiting Everest
Joining a list of record breakers, including a blind person and a 13-year-old boy, a 73-year-old woman has become the oldest woman to climb Everest.
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Escaping to Everest to fight a different kind of war
A new book suggests climbers were trying to transcend were five years of trench warfare that shattered the Edwardian idyll.
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Climbing steadily towards a no-ice age
Reports that global warming is changing the climbing route on Everest has awakened memories of Climategate.
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Everest tour plane crash, 19 dead
An aircraft taking tourists on a sightseeing trip around Mount Everest has crashed into a hillside near the Nepalese capital Kathmandu.
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Team sets out to clear bodies from Everest's death zone
A team of Nepali mountaineers hopes to climb Mount Everest to clear the mountain's "death zone" of rubbish and remove the bodies of dead climbers.
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SA hiker gears up for polar mission
While most South Africans will be soaking up the sun this summer, Greg Benatar plans to hit the ice in a land where the sun doesn't set.
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