No room at the top: Calgary climber reaches peak of crowded Everest

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Source: CBC News

Last Updated: Friday, May 23, 2008 | 12:17 PM ET Comments28Recommend30

A record 75 climbers reached the summit of Mount Everest in a single day this week, officials in Nepal said Friday.

Among them was 39-year-old Andrew Brash of Calgary, who succeeded in his second attempt to climb the world's highest mountain. In 2006, Brash cut short his summit bid to rescue Australian mountaineer Lincoln Hall, who was suffering from altitude sickness ...

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/05/23/everest-top.html

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First Vietnamese conquer Mount Everest
16:56' 23/05/2008 (GMT+7)

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese flag was pitched on the summit of Mount Everest at 7.15am (Vietnam time), May 22. The world’s highest mountain was conquered by three Vietnamese men during the filming of a TV reality show named “Conquering Mount Everest 2008”. The three men, Bui Van Ngoi (24), Phan Thanh Nhien (23) and Nguyen Mau Linh (31), have become the first Vietnamese to reach the world’s roof ...

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/reports/2008/05/784613/

Nepalis in maiden mountaineering feat
5 women scale Everest together
Razen Manandhar
Kathmandu, May 22:

For the first time in Nepal’s mountaineering history, five Nepali women scaled Mt Everest together. The five women are members of the 10-member First Inclusive Women Sagarmatha Expedition 2008, which comprises members from diverse ethnicities ...

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullstory.asp?filename=aFanata0scqzpca4a9a9pa.axamal&folder=aHaoamW&Name=Home&dtSiteDate=20080523

Page last updated at 08:17 GMT, Thursday, 22 May 2008 09:17 UK
Sherpa beats Everest record again

Appa Sherpa, 47, reached the 8,850m-high (29,035ft) summit along with several members of his team, the Nepal Mountaineering Association said. Appa grew up in the Everest foothills and first climbed the mountain in 1989. His nearest challenger is fellow Sherpa guide Chhewang Nima, 42, who has made 15 successful trips to the summit ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7414173.stm

Swiss Man Dies After Climbing Everest
By VOA News
23 May 2008

A Swiss climber has died from exhaustion after making it to the top of Mount Everest. Fellow climbers say 44-year-old Gianni Goltz had scaled the nearly 9,000-meter-high mountain without the aid of bottled oxygen ...

http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-05-23-voa26.cfm

[Hardrada]

1. How soon till there's a Starbucks up there?

[soothsayer]

2. and they each paid, what, $50k or more? ka-ching!

[provis99]

3. why did he climb it? Because its there!

Why did he come down? Because he asked himself, "why the f**k am I up here?"

[Spouting Horn]

4. Hehe...

I've heard coming down is much more dagerous than climbing up.

[struggle4progress]

5. Nepali man becomes oldest Everest climber - official

Sun May 25, 2008 6:41pm IST

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A 76-year-old Nepali man has become the oldest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest, a government official said on Sunday, beating a record set last year by a Japanese man.

Min Bahadur Sherchan reached the summit on Sunday along with four other Nepali climbers, said Ramesh Khatri Chhetri, a tourism ministry official.

"He is in good health and coming down the slopes of the mountain," Chhetri said.

Sherchan breaks the record set last year by Katsusuke Yanagisawa, who was 71 at the time of his ascent. ...

http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia-33761120080525

[LuckyLib]

6. Everest already looks like a waste dump. Plastic bottles, oxygen bottles, discarded material.

Gross!