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Mount Everest. Not a good place to pick a fight. Pic: AP.

Tempers high! Nepal investigates fight on Mount Everest

By AP News Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:00PM UTC 0 Comment

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepalese mountaineering officials say they are investigating reports of a fight between three foreign climbers and local Sherpa guides on Mount Everest. Dipendra Poudel of the Mountaineering Department said the three climbers — from Italy, Switzerland and Britain — were involved in arguments with some Sherpa guides on Sunday. Poudel says...

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Nepal’s women climbers break highest glass ceiling

By AP News Mon, Mar 04, 2013 3:47PM UTC 0 Comment

Nepalese climber Asha Singh looks at climbing gear at a store in Katmandu, Nepal. Pic: AP.

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — It’s the world’s highest glass ceiling. Of the 3,755 climbers who have scaled Mount Everest, more than half are Nepalese but only 21 of those locals are women. Aiming to change the all-male image of mountaineering in this country, a group of Nepalese women have embarked on a mission to shatter...

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2 Everest climbs put Nepalese woman in record book

By AP News Tue, Feb 26, 2013 12:37PM UTC 0 Comment

Nepalese woman mountaineer Chhurim received her award in Katmandu Monday. Pic: AP.

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepalese mountaineer Chhurim entered the record book by scaling Mount Everest twice in the same climbing season. In fact, she did so a week apart. Guinness World Records said she is the first woman to climb the world’s highest mountain twice in the same season — the brief window of good...

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73-year-old Japanese woman scales Mount Everest

By Asian Correspondent Sat, May 19, 2012 5:55PM UTC 0 Comment

A 73-YEAR-OLD Japanese woman climbed to Mount Everest’s peak Saturday, smashing her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale the world’s highest mountain. Tamae Watanabe pictured at a base camp at the foot of Mount Everest on May 9. Pic: AP. Tamae Watanabe reached Everest’s 8,850-meter-high (29,035-foot-high) summit from the northern side...

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Nepal decides to measure up Mount Everest

By AP News Wed, Jul 20, 2011 5:16PM UTC 0 Comment

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s government has ordered a new measurement of Mount Everest to determine exactly how high the world’s highest mountain is, an official said Wednesday. Nepal has continued to recognize the decades-old measurement of 29,028 feet (8,448 meters). However, there have been other claims recently by China and western climbers. Land Reforms...

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