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Records are made to be broken, but on Mount Everest they have been shattering at a dizzying pace in the past month. It's peak season on the 29,035-ft. summit--the world's highest--and more than 90 mountaineers made it to the top just last week. Here's a look at some of the notables who were up for the climb...
PEAKING AT 70 Japan's Takao Arayama, believed to be the oldest person to scale Everest, got to the top when he was 70 years 7 months and 13 days old, edging the previous record holder by three days...
REACHING NEW HEIGHTS Briton Rhys Jones, 20, may be the youngest person to have climbed the highest peaks on all seven continents. Right behind him: Australian Christopher Harris, 15, who is scaling Everest now and hoping to become its youngest summiteer ever...
...Nepal, Himalayan kingdom, home to Mount Everest, backpacker heaven, is a nation in crisis. A country of around 25 million people, Nepal used to have three centers of power: the King, the political parties, and a rebel Maoist army holed up in the mountains. Now there's a fourth: an angry population fed up with the other three and determined to strip all power from a monarchy that has reigned for more than two centuries. Gyanendra is supposed to be only a constitutional ruler. He inherited the throne when his nephew, Crown Prince Dipendra, shot dead King Birendra and eight...
...Cabot House tutor will climb Mt. Everest this August to raise charity funds for a hospice for terminally ill children. “It’s about doing something I want to do and for a good cause,” said Myles G. Osborne, Ph.D. candidate in History and African Studies, who will be the only member of his expedition that is climbing for charity. Osbourne said he plans to donate the money to Naomi House, a hospice in southern United Kingdom. “I always had the climb in the back of my mind...