News tagged with everest
'Super Sherpa' climbs to clean up Everest
Apa Sherpa has stood on top of the world more times than anyone in history, and now he is heading back up Mount Everest, not for the fame or glory, but in the name of environmental protection.
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Search for frozen camera may reveal who climbed Everest first
(PhysOrg.com) -- An Everest historian believes he may have pinpointed the last resting place of mountaineer Andrew Irvine, who died on a mission to climb Mount Everest in 1924, almost 30 years before the successful ...
Jan 29, 2010 |
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Space mountain produces terrestrial meteorites
When NASA's Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around giant asteroid Vesta in July, scientists fully expected the probe to reveal some surprising sights. But no one expected a 13-mile high mountain, two and a half ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 02, 2012 |
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Climate change making Everest more dangerous: Sherpa
Climate change is making Mount Everest more dangerous to climb, a Nepalese Sherpa said in Kathmandu Tuesday after breaking his own record by making a 20th ascent of the world's highest peak.
May 25, 2010 |
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World's highest webcam brings Everest to Internet
The world's highest webcam has been installed in the Nepalese Himalayas, beaming live images of Mount Everest back to scientists studying the effects of climate change on the planet's tallest peak.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Oct 06, 2011 |
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Mountaineers measure lowest human blood oxygen levels on record
The lowest ever levels of oxygen in humans have been reported in climbers on an expedition led by UCL (University College London) doctors. The world-first measurements of blood oxygen levels in climbers near the top of Mount ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 07, 2009 |
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New reports identify impacts of climate change on world's highest mountains
Findings from the most comprehensive assessment to date on climate change, snow and glacier melt in Asia's mountainous Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region -- site of Mount Everest and many of the world's tallest peaks -- highlight ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 04, 2011 |
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Himalayan Sherpas lament climate change devastation
Climate change is altering the face of the Himalayas, devastating farming communities and making Mount Everest increasingly treacherous to climb, some of the world's top mountaineers have warned.
Feb 26, 2012 |
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NASA Heads up Mt. Everest
Steve "Ark" Vander Ark takes a deep breath at the foot of the stairs in a lonely, dusky stairwell, then turns and heads up ten long flights of steps - for the eighth time. He'll repeat this ritual thrice more, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 13, 2009 |
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Highest GigaPan Panoramas Taken On Earth's Surface
(PhysOrg.com) -- On May 20, 2009, former NASA astronaut and Ames employee Scott Parazynski became the first person to have been to space and to climb to the summit of Mount Everest. On his way to the summit ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 19, 2009 |
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Australian aims to solve great Everest mystery
An Australian adventurer will set out to solve Mount Everest's greatest mystery this week by searching for long-lost evidence that the peak was conquered in 1924, 29 years earlier than previously thought.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 18, 2010 |
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Slovenian adventurer embarks on eco-friendly world trip
Slovenian adventurer Matevz Lenarcic flew out of the capital Ljubljana on Sunday at the start of an eco-friendly trip around the world in an ultra-light plane boasting super-low fuel mileage.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 08, 2012 |
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Tweet it from Everest: 'OMG! we're halfway up!'
(AP) -- You can't get away from a cell phone call, even at the top of the world.
Oct 29, 2010 |
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Sky's no limit in high-аlying goose chase
Jessica Meir turns around and looks at the gaggle of geese behind her and asks "Are you guys ready?"
Apr 14, 2011 |
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Nepal will measure exact height of Mount Everest
Nepal has ordered a new measurement of Mount Everest to determine exactly how high the world's highest mountain is.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 20, 2011 |
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