BBC Homepage. BBC News. One-Minute World News News Front Page. ... A regular part of the BBC News Magazine, Who, What, Why? ... Mount Everest grew another 7 ft (2 m) in 1999 after researchers analysed fresh data from the mountain. He was Kevin Hynes, a father of two, who died during his descent down the mountain. The Sherpas will work above 8,000m (26,240ft) - in what's known as the "Death Zone" because of … Theo Hester aims to cycle 8,848m, the distance to the top of Everest, in a 16-hour challenge. Colonel Hunt and Edmund Hillary were knighted on their return. John Griffin, staircase mountaineer, has climbed the equivalent of the world's tallest mountain at home. Related. ... BBC News. Africa. The route used by mountaineers to scale Mount Everest is to be changed for 2015, following last year's avalanche that killed 16. To start a series of special reports from Mount Everest, BBC News spoke to three people about their first time reaching the world's highest point. The youngest British female to conquer Everest had barely set foot on a mountain before, claim the papers. Sir Edmund took part in several expeditions after that including a trip across Antarctica to the South Pole in 1958. BBC News Online One day in 1852 in British-ruled India, a young man burst into an office in the northern Dehra Dun hill town and announced to his boss: "Sir, I have discovered the highest mountain in the world!" Is it really that easy to skip to the summit? Subsection Asia. BBC News Updated every minute of every day. News Front Page. Africa. Americas. A clean-up expedition to Mount Everest has removed 11 tonnes of rubbish and four dead bodies from the world’s highest mountain. … aims to answer some of the questions behind the headlines The BBC will be following their expedition from Everest's base camp. BBC News Magazine. The widow of New Zealand climber Rob Hall, who died on Mount Everest in 1996, says it is too risky to retrieve his remains from the mountain. BBC News, Kathmandu A team of 20 Nepalese Sherpas is planning to clean up rubbish and bring the bodies of dead climbers down from the top of Mount Everest. A second Irish climber has died while climbing Mount Everest in little over a week. News of the conquest of Mount Everest did not reach the outside world until 2 June, the eve of the Queen's coronation.

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