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Death toll rises to 7 as Cyclone Fani makes landfall in India By Karen Graham Cyclone Fani, one of the strongest storms to strike India in the last 20 years, made landfall around 8 a.m. Friday morning, local time, pummeling the country's east coast with the equivalent force of a Category 3 hurricane.

Review: Hot Docs world showcase is a brief journey to the other side Special By Sarah Gopaul The world showcase at Hot Docs invites audiences to experience how other people live via documentaries that endeavour to portray honest fragments of real-life.

Review: ‘Everest’ is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that’s true to life Special By Sarah Gopaul ‘Everest’ is an exceptionally accurate and intense portrayal of one of the worst disasters to ever take place on the mountain.

Over two-thirds of Mount Everest's glaciers could be gone by 2100 By Robert Myles Kathmandu - If greenhouse-gas emissions continue to rise, glaciers in the Everest region of the Himalayas could experience dramatic changes in the decades to come.

China considers building railway under Mount Everest By Business Insider Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi is considering extending a rail line from the Tibetan capitol of Lhasa to Kathmandu in Nepal, and tunneling under Mount Everest to do so, AFP reports.

Twelve sherpas killed on Mount Everest avalanche, 3 more missing By Marcus Hondro A tourism ministry official in Nepal, Krishna Lamsal, reports an avalanche early Friday morning on Mount Everest has killed at least 12 Nepalese guides. Another 3 guides, also called 'sherpas', are missing and believed to have died in the avalanche.

Mt. Everest climbers told to bring their garbage back down By Karen Graham It will be 61 years in May since the first successful attempt at reaching the summit of Mt. Everest was made. Since that time, 3,500 people have succeeded in duplicating the feat of Sir Edmund Hillary and his Nepalese Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay.

French multiple sclerosis sufferer makes Everest skydive By Anne Sewell Kathmandu - Marc Kopp, a multiple sclerosis (MS) sufferer from France, has officially become the first disabled person to skydive over Mount Everest on Sunday. He landed successfully and was taken to hospital for a check up, just as a precaution.

French man with multiple sclerosis to tandem skydive over Everest By Anne Sewell Kathmandu - 55-year-old Marc Kopp, a sufferer of multiple sclerosis, is not letting the disease get him down. He is planning to become the first disabled person to tandem skydive over Mount Everest.

Mt Everest: Climb of a lifetime, or filthy garbage dump? By Anne Sewell As the world celebrates the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund HIllary's ascent to the top of Mt Everest, environmentalists are complaining about the disgusting mess up there, including loads of human excrement and even the odd corpse.

Too crowded on Mt. Everest? No problem, just install a ladder By Yukio Strachan Kathmandu - A Nepalese expedition company whose client died after reaching the summit of Mount Everest in 2012, said installing a ladder near the mountain's peak may prevent the conditions that led to one of the deadliest days on the roof of the world.

Russian daredevil breaks Everest record with highest BASE jump By Anne Sewell In honor of the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's first ascent, the video shows a Russian extreme sports star performing the world's highest BASE jump, off the north face of Everest.

First Saudi woman reaches Mount Everest summit By JohnThomas Didymus Kathmandu - A Saudi Arabian woman, Raha Muharrak, 25, was among 64 people who reached the summit of Mount Everest Saturday, having climbed from Nepal's side of the mountain. Muharraq is the first woman from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to reach the summit.

Report: Mount Everest snow and ice melting at increasing rate By JohnThomas Didymus Researchers announced at the Meeting of the Americas in Cancun, Mexico, May 14, that snow and ice on Mount Everest and the neighboring area was melting at an increasing rate. According to the study, global warming is affecting the Everest environment

Eli Reimer, 15, with Down Syndrome reaches Mt. Everest base camp By JohnThomas Didymus Eli Reimer, 15, with Down Syndrome reached the Nepal base camp of Mt. Everest earlier this month. Eli of Bend, Oregon, may be the first US teen with Down syndrome to climb to one of the base camps on the world’s highest mountain.

Photo: Mount Everest interactive image in 3.8 billion pixels By JohnThomas Didymus A mountaineer and film-maker has created the most detailed image of Mount Everest ever. Working with Microsoft and the Royal Geographic Society, David Breashears has created a 3.8-billion-pixel photographic reproduction of the world's tallest mountain.

Avalanche kills climbers in Nepal By Tim Sandle Nine mountain climbers are believed to have died and six more climbers are missing in Nepal after an avalanche occurred on a Himalayan peak. The avalanche struck a base camp near the summit.

Woman sets record for the oldest woman to climb Mount Everest By Yukio Strachan A 73-year-old Japanese woman beat her own world record for a second time when she reached the peak of the world's highest mountain on Saturday morning making her the world's oldest woman to conquer Mt. Everest.

Woman, 73, breaks record for climbing Mt. Everest for second time By Leigh Goessl A Japanese woman recently broke the world record for being the world's oldest woman to climb Mount Everest. This is not her first record-breaker, she had set the record on a previous climb in 2002.

Tourist plane crashes in Nepal killing 19 passengers and crew By Leo Reyes At least 19 passengers and crew of a small tourist plane were reported killed as the aircraft they were boarding crashes while on sight seeing tour in Nepal

Nepal to issue new measurement of Mount Everest to end debate By Andrew Moran Kathmandu - For decades, the Nepalese government has continued to state that Mount Everest stands at 29,028 feet (8,448 meters), but Chinese officials and Western climbers say they have a slightly different measurement.

Mount Everest 'death zone' to get a clean-up By Lynn Herrmann Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak, will be cleaned up, thanks to the efforts of twenty Nepali climbers involved with Extreme Everest Expedition 2010. The team is setting off this week to remove decades-old garbage from the mountain.

Mount Everest ascent planned by 13-year-old By Lynn Herrmann Big Bear Lake - Jordan Romero, a 13 year-old from Big Bear Lake, California has his sights on the summit of Mount Everest, in an attempt at becoming the youngest person to conquer the 29,035-foot mountain.

Sir Edmund Hillary Dies At Age 88 By Can Tran On Friday, January 11, Sir Edmund Hillary has passed away. He was the beekeeper that was the first person to climb atop and conquer Mouth Everest had passed away. Hillary carries the legacy of one of the great adventurers of the 20th century.

Oldest Person Up Mt Everest By KJ Mullins A 71 year old retired schoolteacher from Japan is the oldest to scale Mount Everest. Katsusuke Yanagisawa reached the top of the oldest highest mountain on May 22.

2 climbers killed on Mount Everest By Brandigal (Donna) Two South Korean climbers were killed trying to scale Mount Everest.

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