The Great Ganesha

Sir Edmund Hillary, the lanky New Zealand mountaineer and explorer who with Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, won worldwide acclaim in 1953 by becoming the first to scale the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday in Wellington. He was 88. [link] I [...]

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The mountain seems to constantly fascinate Westerners. Or the BBC, at any rate. Yet again, Everest is in the news. This time, no one has summitted (or at least, no one worthy of mention in the news), but a climber has used replicas of clothes worn by Mallory and Irvine – who are alleged to [...]

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Today, I found this article about Mark Inglis' (the double-amputee) decision to leave David Sharp to die. Also, apparently yet another climber, an Australian named Lincoln Hall, who had summitted on Thursday, and who had lost a German team-mate, started to hallucinate and weaken on his descent. The Sherpas who were with him radioed the [...]

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Because of the good weather last week, 42 people summitted including a Sherpa who beat his own world record of maximum Everest summits bringing it up to 16, a double-amputee who summitted -amazingly- on prosthetic limbs and a British diplomat who summitted 70 years after her grandfather’s failed attempt. I had blogged about all three [...]

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Looks like they’re really having good weather on Everest this month. This is the third famous ascent with Appa Sherpa breaking his own record of maximum ascents bringing it up to 16. This was the second ascent in the news, with Serena Brocklebank, a British diplomat reaching the summit 70 years after her grandfather’s failed [...]

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Yes – it's been climbed yet again. Only thing is, this time it's by a double amputee. New Zealander Mark Inglis reached the top of the mountain on his two prosthetic limbs. He lost his legs to frostbite while climbing Mt. Cook in 1982, when he and a companion were forced to spend two weeks [...]

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