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IE piggybacks on Everest celebration to showcase new browser tech
2013-05-29 06:00:00| CNET News.com
Renowned Everest explorer David Breashears teams with Microsoft Internet Explorer to create an immersive site that takes you as close to the tallest mountain in the world as possible without actually being there. [Read more]
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HTC One makes video call from summit of Everest
2013-05-20 22:00:05| CNET News.com
Thanks to a British explorer, the high-end Android phone is the first to make a video call from the highest point on Earth. [Read more]
Everest Ice Shrinking Fast, Scientists and Climbers Say
2013-05-16 22:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Everest isn't the same mountain it was when Jim Whittaker became the first U.S. climber to summit the peak in 1963. The world's highest peak has been shedding snow and ice for the past 50 years, possibly due in part to global warming, new research says. (Take an Everest quiz.) New analyses show Mount Everest has lost significant snow and ice cover over the past half century. In nearby Sagarmatha National Park, glaciers have shrunk by 13 percent. Weather data reveal the larger Everest region has...
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Highest Altitude LED Lighting Installed at Mount Everest Base Camp
2013-04-22 19:12:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
On March 10, the laboratory, operating room, and patient areas at Xtreme Everest 2, an intensive care unit at 17,500 feet elevation at the Mt. Everest High Base Camp, were outfitted with Cardinal LED lighting from RedBird LED read more
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05.07: The Vast Unknown: America's First Ascent of Everest
2013-04-15 18:37:01| Powells Books Events Calendar
Broughton Coburn's The Vast Unknown (Crown) chronicles the iconic first American expedition to Mt. Everest in May 1963, combining riveting adventure, a perceptive analysis of history, and revelations about a secret mission that followed.
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