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...Norwegian island on a 16-month trip. By the time he reached Norway, in April 1969, he had covered 3,720 miles, camped through temperatures of --50°F and wandered for three months in total darkness. Along the way Herbert, who likened the journey to "conquering a horizontal Everest," oversaw the drilling of more than 250 ice-core samples, which that are now the benchmark against which scientists measure the impact of climate change in the Arctic. He was 72 and had diabetes...
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...Number of climbers who have scaled Mount Everest so far in 2007, the most in any year since it was first conquered in 1953. Many conservationists argue that such a large human presence could destroy Everest's ecological balance...
...million Estimated boost that the Everest industry provides to Nepal, one of the world's poorest countries...
...latest effort by China's political adversaries to leverage the games to their advantage. In April, four American advocates of Tibetan independence were detained by Chinese authorities after hoisting a banner on Mt. Everest that parodied the Olympic slogan, reading: "One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 2008." A few days after that, Amnesty International released a report charging that Beijing had rounded up political dissidents in the name of protecting Olympic guests from troublemakers. And Darfur activists got attention for labeling the games the "Genocide Olympics" because Beijing, a primary trading partner and supporter of the Sudan, has blocked...