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HOW DEUTSCHE'S BIG BET ON WALL STREET TURNED TOXIC
A decade later, Deutsche bought Bankers Trust, paying 10 billion for the American bank and an estimated severance of 100 million to its chief executive... READ MORE›
GOING TO SPACE IS A REAL PAIN IN THE BACK
CNN A six-month stay on the International Space Station can be a pain in the back for astronauts... READ MORE›
WHAT WILL INDIA DO WITH 23 BILLION WORTHLESS BANKNOTES?
The notes would make a pile 300 times the height of Everest... READ MORE›
JUNKO TABEI, THE FIRST WOMAN TO REACH THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT EVEREST, DIES AT 77
It wasn't until 1988 that an American woman, Stacy Allison, would complete an ascent of Everest. Ms. Tabei continued her mountaineering expeditions around the globe for decades... READ MORE›
CHINAS MILLENNIALS ARE RISK TAKERS - AND THEYRE DREAMING BIG
Experimenters, moon-shooters and diverse are the words 17-year-old Shanghai high schooler Owen Xu uses to define his generation... READ MORE›
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THE TROUBLE WITH TOURISTS GONE WILD
But countering Magaluf's social media image is not going to be easy... READ MORE›
NEW ZEALAND CREATES VAST OCEAN SANCTUARY
According to information supplied by Smith's office, the Kermadec ocean sanctuary will be one of the world's largest and most significant fully protected areas... READ MORE›
ANNAPURNA CIRCUIT SNOW AND AVALANCHE DEATHS REACH 28
Most of the deaths happened when a blizzard hit a point on the Annapurna Circuit, a well-known trekking route in central Nepal... READ MORE›
SOLAR IMPULSE LANDS IN HAWAII AFTER LONGEST NON-STOP SOLO FLIGHT IN HISTORY
Veteran pilot tested to the limit of endurance on record-breaking solar-powered flight across the Pacific, on the eighth leg of round-the-world journey... READ MORE›
NEPAL DISASTER TOLL RISES TO 39
Related Stories Snowstorms and avalanches have killed 39 trekkers on a popular hiking route in the Himalayas, Nepali officials say... READ MORE›
RESCUE TEAMS REACH HIMALAYAN PASS
On Friday, officials said good weather let troops and helicopters reach the Thorung La pass, the high point of the Annapurna Circuit, for the first time... READ MORE›
GLACIERS RETREAT SIGNALS ASIAN WATER WOES
Across China, the surface area of glaciers has decreased more than 10 percent since the 1960s, according to the climate change report... READ MORE›
FIRST COMBAT AMPUTEE REACHES TOP OF EVEREST
The commitment to Everest has been number one, Linville said in an interview in April... READ MORE›
GUARDIAN.CO.UK EGYPTIAN COURT SENTENCES 183 MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SUPPORTERS TO DEATH 1 HR AGO
Guinness World Records maintains a database of 40,000 records, only 3,000 to 4,000 of which make it into the printed book... READ MORE›
MARIANA TRENCH LIVE FEED: ENGROSSING VIEWING FROM DEEPEST PLACE ON EARTH
The Mariana trench plunges about 11km seven miles deep under the Pacific - further down than the summit of Mount Everest is above sea level... READ MORE›
TWO IRAQ VETERANS STRIVE TO BE FIRST COMBAT AMPUTEES TO CLIMB EVEREST
It will be Linville's third attempt to climb the 29,029-foot mountain with a veterans organization called The Heroes Project... READ MORE›
MOUNT EVEREST VICTIMS' GRUELING FINAL HOURS
Hide Caption 18 of 23 23 photos Exploring Mount Everest Sherpa climbers pose at Everest Base Camp after collecting garbage during the Everest cleanup expedition on May 28, 2010... READ MORE›
'A LIFE WASTED': MOTHER OF MOUNT EVEREST VICTIM WANTS ANSWERS
South-African born Australian Maria Strydom died in her husband's arms on Mount Everest. Strydom still wants answers... READ MORE›
MAN ACHIEVES CHILDHOOD DREAM OF CONQUERING EVEREST, DIES ON WAY DOWN
Arnold had told a local Dutch television station last year that climbing Mount Everest was a childhood dream, the Associated PressA reported... READ MORE›
AMERICAN CLIMBERS WHO SET OUT FOR ONE OF PAKISTAN'S HIGHEST PEAKS ARE MISSING
Utah mountain climbers Kyle Dempster and Scott Adamson went missing after they started their ascend to the 23,000-foot Ogre-II peak in northern Pakistan... READ MORE›
BRITISH HOSTAGE JOHN CANTLIE APPEARS IN FOURTH ISIS PROPAGANDA VIDEO
The 56-page colour magazine also purports to publish a longer essay from Cantlie which gives details about his capture... READ MORE›
A VEGAN DIED ON MOUNT EVEREST, PAPERS ARE KEEN TO TELL US
Another climber in the same expedition as Strydom, Eric Ary Arnold, also died on the mountain after suffering from altitude sickness... READ MORE›
A FASTER PACE FOR NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE
But the National Geographic Society had about 569 million in revenue in 2013, including some for-profit ventures like its TV production group... READ MORE›
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO REACH THE TOP OF THE WORLD?
In the 62 years since it was first conquered more than 3 000 people have made it to the summit of Mount Everest the highest point on Earth... READ MORE›
BARBARA ADAMS, FREE SPIRIT AND AMERICAN EXPATRIATE IN NEPAL, DIES AT 84
Ms. Adams, the onetime royal consort of a Nepali prince, was a charismatic figure at the center of the expatriate community... READ MORE›
NORWAY'S PRIME MINISTER SAYS IT MIGHT GIVE FINLAND A MOUNTAIN
That's big, but not exactly huge Mount Everest is an eight-thousander... READ MORE›
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FOUR DECADES, NOBODY MADE IT TO THE TOP OF MOUNT EVEREST LAST YEAR
MORE READING What you need to know before climbing Mount Everest this year Climbers trapped on Mount Everest 'are getting desperate'... READ MORE›
DEATHS, RESCUE MARK PERILOUS WEEKEND ON MOUNT EVEREST
At least two Indian climbers were missingA on Mount Everest... READ MORE›
TWO EVEREST CLIMBERS DIE ON THEIR WAY DOWN
That night, while resting at Camp IV, the uppermost of four camps on the route to the summit, he died, Mr. Sherpa said... READ MORE›
A SHERPA WOMAN WHO WORKS AT A CONNECTICUT 7-ELEVEN JUST CLIMBED EVEREST FOR A RECORD SEVENTH TIME
A Sherpa woman who works at a Connecticut 7-Eleven just climbed Everest for a record seventh time... READ MORE›
'IT'S WIDE-EYED, CHILDLIKE AND MAGICAL.'
Hide Caption 8 of 23 23 photos Exploring Mount Everest Hillary and Nepalese-Indian mountaineer Tenzing Norgay climb beyond a crevasse on Mount Everest in 1953... READ MORE›
AMERICAN WINGSUIT FLIER JOHNNY STRANGE DIES IN SWITZERLAND ACCIDENT
Earlier in the week, the extreme sportsman shot a video of a successful wingsuit jump in the same area... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN PRIEST IN RECORD HOT AIR BALLOON TRIP TELLS OF 11 DAYS WITHOUT SLEEP
Russian priest in record hot air balloon trip tells of 11 days without sleep... READ MORE›
EX-SOLDIER WHO LOST A LEG IN IRAQ REACHES THE TOP OF EVEREST
Chad Jukes is the second combat amputee in six days to climb Everest... READ MORE›
BREAKFAST LIKE A KING AS FORTNUM & MASON PUBLISHES RECIPE FOR EDWARD VIII'S KIPPERS
Fortnum Mason The Cookbook by Tom Parker Bowles is published by 4th Estate, costs ?30, and is out now... READ MORE›
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HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU LIE ABOUT EVEREST CLIMB
A total of 456 people reached the peak of Mount Everest during this past spring climbing season.A Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod were not among them... READ MORE›
THEY CLAIMED TO HAVE CLIMBED EVEREST NOW THEYRE BANNED FROM NEPAL FOR 10 YEARS
Shelke also noted that although the Rathods were seen at the Everest base camp, no one had seem them higher up the mountain... READ MORE›
NEPAL SAYS INDIAN COUPLE FAKED EVEREST CLIMB
Another Indian climber, Satyarup Sidhantha from Bangalore, said it was his photograph that the couple altered to make it appear they were on the summit... READ MORE›
NEPAL INVESTIGATES INDIAN COUPLE'S CLAIMS THEY CLIMBED MOUNT EVEREST
Nepal's mountaineering authorities are investigating a climbing claim by an Indian couple who are accused of altering photographs of themselves on the summit of Mount Everest... READ MORE›
INDIAN COUPLE ACCUSED OF FAKING PHOTO OF SUMMIT AT MOUNT EVEREST
Both seem to have changed their climbing boots, too, in separate pictures... READ MORE›
INDIAN COUPLE ACCUSED OF FAKING WIDELY PRAISED EVEREST CLIMB
They separately interviewed the couple and the climbing Sherpas and after four days officially declared the Rathods' Everest summit feat... READ MORE›
INDIAN POLICE COUPLE'S SUMMIT CLAIM INVESTIGATED
Police investigate claims by two climbers who say they are India's first couple to scale Mount Everest, after doubt is cast on photos of the ascent... READ MORE›
HUSBAND OF AUSTRALIAN CLIMBER WHO DIED ON EVEREST DESCRIBES HER FINAL HOURS
Maria Strydom died in the arms of her husband, Robert Gropel, after suffering severe altitude sickness... READ MORE›
MARIA STRYDOM COLLAPSED 15 MINS FROM EVEREST TOP
Melbourne university lecturer Maria Strydom collapsed just 15 minutes' climb from the summit of Mt Everest... READ MORE›
EVEREST WITHOUT OXYGEN AN EMOTIONAL BATTLE FOR CLIMBERS
Everest without using supplemental oxygen. Photo Photos contributed by Adrian Ballinger and Cory Richards RENO a??... READ MORE›
'WHAT THE HELL AM I GOING TO DO?'
Raftis, 54, the Toronto owner of the adventure travel shop Europe Bound, was at Everest base camp in April 2014 when 16 Nepalese guides were killed by an avalanche... READ MORE›
CLIMBER PROFILED BY WASHINGTON POST DIES ON MOUNT EVEREST
More than 250 people have died climbing Mount Everest since 1953, many from altitude related illnesses... READ MORE›