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Everest Gets Taller Every Year—Science Explains Why
Mount Everest, our planet’s highest peak at 29,032 feet, continues to defy expectations by growing taller each year. While ...
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Higher than Everest?
Mount Everest, standing over 29,000 feet above the surface of the sea, is the highest point on earth on which a human can walk. As such, the challenge of reaching this so-called "Third Pole" was a ...
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Mount Everest officials to employ drones to deal with growing problem — here's how it could clean the 'world's highest garbage dump'
Thanks to the new drones, officials can more effectively remove trash on Mount Everest without risking the lives of Sherpa ...
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Dual world records marked on Mount Everest
Mount Everest saw two record-breaking climbs on Sunday with a Nepali sherpa making the most ever summits and a British climber setting the record for a foreigner. Kami Rita Sherpa, 54, scaled the ...
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Majestic Mount Everest: What to Know About the World's Tallest Mountain
In May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the highest point on Earth ... minus 83 degrees Celsius (minus 117.4 Fahrenheit). Climate change is having an alarming ...
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Microplastics found at the highest point on Earth as the glaciers around Mount Everest’s death zone melt
microplastics have now been found near the Earth's highest point — the death zone of Mount Everest. It's called the 'death zone' because that's where the level of oxygen is insufficient to ...