It's getting chilly

Source: Travel Blog

So... it's me again! I told a bit of a porky in my last blog. I did not in fact hike on Fox Glacier, it was on Franz Josef Glacier. Woops. But it was beautiful, I got the helicopter up to the top of the glacier mid morn ...
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Astronauts working inside first private spacecraft

Source: Ottawa Citizen

Sandra Leduc tweeted from the top of the world Saturday after summiting Mount Everest. The 34-year-old Ottawa lawyer posted on Saturday morning that she’d reached the top of the world’s highest... Just a few weeks after a report call ...
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Matthew Bell: Rant & Rave (27/05/12)

Source: The Independent

Once, climbing the world's highest mountain was rather original. For centuries, Mount Everest stood there, daring us to conquer it. In 1922, a few explorers had a go and, for 30 years, man and mountain slogged it o ...
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The Week That Was: A Step Back in Time

Source: The Huffington Post

Did I miss the collective time-travel mission back to the 1950s this week? I only ask because a glance at a choice selection of headlines from the past seven days certainly suggests so. Either that, or someone (a man, presumably) decided it was time t ...
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Lens in hand, Khasi man scales Everest

Source: Calcutta Telegraph

Shillong, May 26: In pursuit of the right picture, he looked down on creation from the pinnacle. Thirty-year-old Shillongite, Gary Jarman Lamare, a photographer with Discovery Channel, became the first indi ...
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Home-grown trio conquer Everest

Source: Calcutta Telegraph

Jamshedpur, May 26: Three climbers from Jharkhand reached an enviable height of success today. Rajendra Singh Pal (53), Meghlal Mahto (30) and Binita Soren (25) scaled the Mt Everest summit early this mornin ...
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Everest season ends with 150 reaching summit

Source: The Sun Daily Malaysia

KATHMANDU (May 26, 2012): A near-record number of climbers reached the summit of Everest as the season ended Saturday without a repeat of last week's deadly accidents, which had raised fears of overcrowding o ...
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Canadian woman's body still on Everest

Source: United Press International

EVEREST BASE CAMP, Nepal, May 26 (UPI) -- A team of Sherpas left the body of a Canadian woman at the South Col on the Nepal side of Mount Everest after bringing it a short way down the mountain. Shriya Shah-Klorfine, ...
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Another state girl scales Mt Everest

Source: Times of India

JAIPUR: Yet another army officer from Rajasthan, Major Neha Bhatnagar hailing from Jaipur scaled the the Mount Everest on Saturday morning. She conquered the peak at 5.40 am. This is the second expedition of women officers ...
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