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Yuichiro Miura (Reuters)

80-year-old climbs Mt Everest

An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer has become the oldest man to reach the top of Mount Everest.

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Auckland Museum to release Sir Ed's diary entries

Auckland Museum is set to share detailed diary entries written by Sir Edmund Hillary as he climbed to the summit of Mt Everest sixty years ago.

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Chad Moffitt poses with a five-dollar note bearing a picture of Sir Edmund Hillary

Filming begins on Sir Ed movie video

Filming has just begun on a movie that will immortalise Sir Edmund Hillary on the big screen.

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Woman climbs Everest twice in week

Nepalese mountaineer Chhurim entered the record book by scaling Mount Everest twice in a week.

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Sir Edmund Hillary (Reuters)

Hillary was 'insensitive about Everest' - photographer

An American photographer who has spent over 40 years working in Nepal has accused Western climbers including Sir Edmund Hillary of being insensitive to the old traditions of the mountain.

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Mount Everest and other peaks of the Himalayan range are seen from air during a mountain flight from Kathmandu (Reuters)

Everest will be crowded again days after 4 killed video

Days after four people died amid a traffic jam of climbers scrambling to conquer Mount Everest, Nepal officials said a similar rush up the world's tallest peak will begin soon, and there's little they can do to control it.

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Nepalese police personnel are seen at the crash site of Buddha Air plane in Lalitpur (Reuters)

Everest tourist plane crashes, 19 killed video

A plane carrying tourists to view Mount Everest crashed while attempting to land in Nepal on Sunday.

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Jordan Romero

13-year-old reaches top of Everest, youngest ever to do so

A 13-year-old boy has become the youngest climber to reach the summit of Mt Everest

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Mt Everest (Reuters)

Nepal to remove bodies from Everest's 'Death Zone'

The family of Christchurch climber Rob Hall would prefer his body remain on Mt Everest, where he died after reaching the summit in 1996.

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Himalayan glaciers disappearing faster than ever video

If Sir Edmund Hillary were alive today, he would be ringing the climate change alarm bell over what is happening to his favourite mountain range.

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