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Catsuit-clad comedy duo achieve Guinness World Records title on Mount Everest

Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn – or as they are better known, the Scummy Mummies – performed at 17,417ft (5,309m) on Mount Everest.

The Independent UK

Special school in Stockport launches their own astronaut 36km into orbit

The doll ultimately was launched 36 kilometers (36,000 metres) in the air before deploying back safely. To compare, the summit of Mount Everest is around 8,800 metres

Manchester Evening News

New Munros record set after ultra-runner completes charity challenge

Jamie Aarons, 43, ascended 140,000 metres as part of the challenge – the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest 16 times

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She was 200 meters from the peak of Mount Everest, then turned back. Here's why

Kirstie Ennis has scaled plenty of incredible mountains before. But Mount Everest continues to elude her.

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Ben Fogle removes Mount Everest tattoo from his wrist: ‘Nothing has to last forever’

The nature and adventure presenter advised people to ‘think before you ink’

The Independent UK

Veteran Sherpa guides to compete next season for Everest ascent record

The race for the most successful ascents of Mount Everest is still on

The Independent UK

King holds audience marking 70th anniversary of Mount Everest ascent

Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach the summit in 1953.

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Interview | Muthamizh Selvi, the first woman from TN to summit Mount Everest

N Muthamizh Selvi is back to Chennai after her exhausting climb over the highest peak in the world, scaling 8,850 metres. She recounts her 56-day journey full of grief, grit, mercy, and exhilaration

The Hindu

Ben Fogle shares graphic photos as he removes tattoo and warns fans 'think before you ink'

Ben Fogle reached the summit of Mount Everest in May 2018, and had the mountain’s height - 8,848m - inked on his wrist, but now he’s had second thoughts over his choice of tattoo

Daily Mirror

Nepal urged to tighten climbing rules to cut Everest deaths

Weak climbers being led up Mount Everest by expedition operators with insufficient experience are causing problems, a veteran mountain guide said on Sunday, after one of the deadliest climbing seasons in years on the world's highest mountain.

Reuters

Tonnes of rubbish left behind by climbers trekking to Mount Everest

Food wrappers, tents, plastic and human waste being discarded by climbers staying at the mountain's base camps.

ABC News

Sherpa says rescuing climber from Mount Everest ‘death zone’ was ‘hardest ever’

A Nepali sherpa carried a stricken stranger for six hours 1,900ft down Mount Everest after finding the man dangling in the “death zone”.

Evening Standard

Sherpa saves Everest climber in ‘almost impossible’ rescue

Astonishing footage has emerged of a sherpa's "almost impossible" rescue of a stricken climber from near the summit of Mount Everest.

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Shivering climber rescued from Mount Everest's 'death zone' in 'impossible' mission

The sherpa was guiding another client to the Everest summit on May 18 when he noticed the unnamed climber clinging to a rope and shivering from the freezing temperatures

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Sherpa appalled by Everest mess calls it the ‘dirtiest camp I have ever seen’

‘I feel so sad every time,’ he said

Reuters

Nepali sherpa saves Malaysian climber in rare Everest 'death zone' rescue

(This May 31 story has been refiled to fix the temperature to -22F, instead of 88F, in paragraph 2)

Daily Mirror

Everest camp turned into huge rubbish dump on 70th anniversary of first scaling

Seventy years after Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hilary became the first people to scale Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain was filmed covered in piles of rubbish left by climbers

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Climate change to blame for up to 17 deaths on Mount Everest, experts say

Nepal’s head of tourism says variable weather on the mountain has led to one of the deadliest years on record

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U.S. climber urges better policing to keep Everest free from garbage

A renowned U.S. mountain guide, who recently achieved the rare feat of climbing Mount Everest and two nearby peaks in less than three weeks, said on Tuesday Nepal needs to do a better job of policing the world's highest mountain to save it from garbage.

Reuters

From highs to lows, Everest record breaker sees 'no future' in Nepal

Kami Rita Sherpa had stood at the top of world just days earlier, exultant at having summited Mount Everest for a record 28th time.

The Hindu

Nepal honours Sherpa guides, climbers to mark 70th anniversary of Mount Everest conquest

Nepal’s government honoured record-holding climbers on May 29 during celebrations of the first ascent of Mount Everest 70 years ago.

The Independent UK

Nepal honors Sherpa guides, climbers to mark 70th anniversary of Mount Everest conquest

Nepal’s government is honoring record-holding climbers during celebrations of the first ascent of Mount Everest 70 years ago

The Hindu

Do microbes left behind by humans on Mount Everest survive?

A new study has found that humans are leaving behind a frozen legacy of hardy microbes on Mount Everest, which can withstand harsh conditions.

Daily Mirror

Bravery, triumph and more than 300 deaths - 70 years of climbing Mount Everest

Monday marks 70 years to the day that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made history and conquered the world's highest peak - and in the decades since, hundreds have followed in their footsteps

Reuters

U.S. mountaineer climbs rare Everest 'triple crown' as death toll reaches 12

A renowned U.S. mountain guide has achieved the rare Mount Everest region "triple crown" of climbing the Everest, Lhotse and Nuptse peaks in one season, a hiking firm said on Friday, as the season's death toll on the world's highest mountain hit 12.

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