Swiss Everest pioneer dies at age 95
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Ernest Hofstetter, part of the Swiss team that first traced the route to "The Roof of the World" used by Sir Edmund Hillary to conquer Mount Everest, has died, his son said Friday. He was 95.
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Harold Zinkin, the inventor of the  widely used Universal Gym machines and a pioneer of modern  bodybuilding, has died at age 82, his friends said on Thursday.
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The world's oldest person, Emma Faust Tillman, dies aged 114 at a nursing home in the US.
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"To be washed gently ashore, maybe on the many pleasant beaches near the place I was born. Then the full circle of my life will be complete"  Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century's greatest adventurers, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday. He was 88.The gangling New Zealander devoted much of his life to aiding the mountain people of Nepal and took his fame in stride, preferring to be called 'Ed' and considering himself an ordinary man.'Sir Ed described himself as an average New Zealander with modest abilities. In reality, he was a colossus. He was an heroic figure who not only 'knocked off' Everest but lived a life of determination, humility, and generosity,' Clark said in a statement. Read more
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Ancel Keys, the University of Minnesota scientist who invented the K ration diet used by soldiers in World War II and who linked high cholesterol and fatty diets to heart disease, has died at the age of 100.
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By ROD McGUIRK CANBERRA, Australia - A champion German paraglider said Friday she did not believe she would survive when she was lifted higher than Mount Everest by a thunderstorm in eastern Australia.
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a guru to the Beatles who introduced the West to transcendental meditation, died Tuesday at his home in the Dutch town of Vlodrop, a spokesman said. He was thought to be 91 years old.
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a guru to the Beatles who introduced the West to transcendental meditation, has died at his home in the Dutch town of Vlodrop, a spokesman said Tuesday. He was thought to be 91 years old.
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Two-time Olympic decathlon gold   medalist Bob Mathias has passed away at the age of 75, the U.S.   Olympic Committee (USOC) said in a statement.
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MIAMI, Florida  - LPGA pioneer and record major   winner Patty Berg died on Sunday at the age of 88 after   battling Alzheimer's disease.
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Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay are the first to reach the summit of the world's tallest mountain.
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An extreme sportsman from Britain plunged to his death at the weekend after the 35-year-old base jumped off a cliff in the Swiss Alps but failed to open his parachute in time.
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The founder of Seagate Technologies died on Tuesday following complications from heart surgery.
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The world's oldest man, who gave up  driving at 108 because "slow drivers annoyed him", dies at 113.
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Gen. Alain Le Ray, a World War II Resistance leader whose escape from a notorious Nazi prison forged his image and career, has died at the age of 96, his family said Thursday.
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Pioneering NASA engineer Maxime Faget, who designed the Project Mercury capsule that carried the first US astronauts into space and worked on every subsequent manned spacecraft including the space shuttle, has died at the age of 83
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The guru to the Beatles who introduced transcendental meditation to the West, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, died at his Dutch home overnight, aides said on Wednesday. He was said to be 91.