This season, 11 people died on the treacherous slopes where mountaineers queued sometimes for hours for their turn at the top
Mountaineering has become big business since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made the first ascent of Everest in 1953
A team of mountaineers unveiled plans on Thursday for what could be the most environmentally friendly attempt yet at scaling Everest — where even bodily waste will not be left behind. Expedition leader Dawa Steven Sherpa said his team will road test a "Clean Mountain Can", essentially a very strong, water-tight bucket that can be strapped on to backpacks.
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/ 22 January 2008
Saffron-robed Buddhist monks, Nepali Sherpas and grey-bearded mountaineers paid homage on Tuesday to Sir Edmund Hillary, the man who conquered Everest, as thousands gathered in New Zealand to watch his state funeral. ”His loss to us is bigger and heavier than Mount Everest,” Ang Rita Sherpa told the service in a small church in Auckland.