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Mount Everest is now a trash-filled, overcrowded tourist spot, says the last living member of Edmund Hillary's team
Kanchha Sherpa helped Edmund Hillary reach the peak of Mount Everest in 1953. He says the mountain …
Lauren Edmonds
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Nepal's is banning Mount Everest climbers from taking pictures and videos of 'others' without consent
Nepals Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has put a ban on taking and circulating pict…
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More than 398,000 people have now signed a petition to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge after late civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis
Edmund Pettus was a Confederate general and leader of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. The bridge bearing …
Connor Perrett
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Nancy Pelosi, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and more mourn the death of civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, who died at 80
"John Lewis dead. Can it really be? He had strength, courage, and heart enough for many lifetimes,"…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Netflix announces projects from Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions. Here's what's in development.
The new titles - which range from films to series of varying genres - will be released on the strea…
Brittany Chang
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An all-women list for the highest civilian honours from India's Sports Ministry
Boxing champion, MC Mary Kom is nominated for Padma Vibhushan. The government had earlier awarde…
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Trump orders flags to be lowered at White House and official buildings in 'mark of respect' for late civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis
President Donald Trump wrote in a Saturday afternoon tweet that he was "saddened to hear the news o…
Ellen Cranley
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Georgia congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis dies at age 80
Lewis has been called "the conscience of the US Congress," and spent his life getting into what he …
Sonam Sheth,Ellen Cranley
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President Obama mourns the death of longtime civil rights leader John Lewis: 'We now all have our marching orders'
After Barack Obama was first sworn in, John Lewis reportedly asked him to sign a commemorative pict…
David Choi
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Crowds, costs, and corpses: 16 misconceptions about what it's like to climb Everest
The recent deaths have been attributed to overcrowding on the mountain, since people were forced to…
Aylin Woodward
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49-yr-old Sherpa climbs Mt Everest for the 23rd time, breaks his own record
A 49-year-old Nepalese climber, Kami Rita Sherpa scaled Mount Everest for the 23rd time on Wednesda…
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Republican senators confused Rep. John Lewis for another late Black lawmaker in social media posts about his death
GOP Sens. Marco Rubio and Dan Sullivan used photos of the late Rep. Elijah Cummings in posts about …
Connor Perrett
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So you can just lie to Congress now?
The Senate Intelligence Committee wrote a criminal referral for Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Donald…
David Plotz,Henry Blodget,Ant…
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Everest is becoming a conveyor belt of hikers who pay $25,000 to do the climb - these images reveal what the trek really looks like
The film is full of diverse thrill-seekers looking for their next mountain high, including the film…
Hilary Brueck
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An Antarctic Explorer's Notebook Is Discovered After A Century Trapped In Ice
He said the pages of the notebook were taken to New Zealand and individually preserved, then given …
AFP
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Armchair travelers can now explore Mount Everest on Google Street View
Google has teamed up with Ava Sherpa, a Nepalese mountaineer who has reached the summit of the worl…
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Climbers Are Obsessed With These 14 Eight-Thousander Peaks
According to statistics compiled by Eberhard Jurgalski, co-author of On Top of the World: The New M…