Researchers save Everest climber
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A woman found unconscious near the summit of Everest received life-saving help from a UK research team, it emerges.
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New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who along with Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa became the first to conquer Mount Everest, has died. He was 88.
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HELENA, Mont.  - A woman who survived a plane  crash in Montana then hiked down a mountain was expected to  make a full recovery, while the other survivor, who made the  grueling trek with a fractured spine, was in good spirits but  awaiting surgery, officials said on Friday.
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Science & environment: Â· Scientists shed new light on disputed skeleton findÂ· Bone analysis supports distinct species theory
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Sir Edmund Hillary was the mountaineer who, with his Sherpa guide, was the first to scale Mount Everest.
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A record 514 people have so far conquered Mount Everest in this year's main climbing season, the biggest number since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first climbed the world's highest mountain in 1953, a top mountaineering official said.
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Ed Viesturs has summitted 13 of the 14 highest mountains in the world without the aid of supplemental oxygen. The climber excels where others perish thanks to his alpine skills, mental focus, and near freakish physiology.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- A lone tsunami survivor has been rescued from a remote Indian island, officials said yesterday, a rare moment of hope in the Indian Ocean as nations pledged to try to stop such a disaster from happening again.
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Rangers completed a dramatic rescue Thursday of two climbers from a snowy mountain and removed the ice-encrusted bodies of two other hikers who died on the
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Rescue teams on Friday found two  members of a missing Russian canoeing expedition who had  survived for nearly three weeks without food in remote gorges  in western China.
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The first man to climb Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary, has died at the age of 88
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Rescue teams on Friday found two members of a missing Russian canoeing expedition who had survived for nearly three weeks without food in remote gorges in western China.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A lone tsunami survivor  has been rescued from a remote Indian island, officials said on  Saturday, a rare moment of hope in the Indian Ocean as nations  pledged to try to stop such a disaster happening again.
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CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The news from Indian River Lagoon was too familiar: another dolphin gravely injured because of human action.But marine scientist Steve McCulloch immediately saw this rescue was unique.
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When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa guide, stood on the summit of Mount Everest, it seems as if they were making the last âgiant leap for mankindâ of pre-space-age generations.
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RESCUERS in the Philippines yesterday pulled at least four survivors from a building that collapsed in mudslides 10 days ago. The miraculous tale of survival came as officials
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A victim of last month's tsunamis was rescued after surviving alone for 26 days on a partially submerged island in India's Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, the Indian navy said.