Climber who found frozen mummy dies in Alps
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VIENNA Austrian officials have recovered the body of a missing German climber who won fame when he found a mummified 5,300-year-old human body in the Alps in 1991.
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Rescuers looking for three missing climbers on Mount Hood found a body Sunday in the area where one of the climbers made a distress call a week ago, authorities said.
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The body of one of three climbers missing for more than a week on Mount Hood in Oregon was found on Sunday, a spokesman for the Hood River County Sheriff's Department said.
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CAIRO -- Egyptologists think they have identified with certainty the mummy of Hatshepsut, the most famous queen to rule ancient Egypt, found in a humble tomb in the Valley of the Kings, an archeologist said yesterday.
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Chinese rescuers have found the body of  an American climber on a remote mountain eight months after she  disappeared, Xinhua news agency said on Monday.
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Six climbers were killed on Thursday after they fell several hundred metres (more than 1,000 feet) in the Swiss Alps, rescuers in central Switzerland said.
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Two climbers who aimed to recreate British mountaineer George Mallory's pioneering attempt to climb Everest using only 1920s gear ended up wearing modern clothes due to the cold, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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Six mountain climbers have died of  exposure in the Alps when temperatures plunged to well below  freezing, Italian and French officials said on Wednesday.
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SEATTLE, Dec. 18 -- As searchers retrieved the body of one Mount Hood climber on Monday, authorities said two others appeared to have tried to descend the Oregon peak by way of a treacherous glacier slope where many other climbers have died.
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Nepalese woman found near death by Canadian mountaineer is revived by medical research team.
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Edmund Hillary, the modest New Zealand beekeeper who shot to global fame as the first person to climb Mount Everest, died Friday at age 88.
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A skier died Saturday and two others were injured after being buried in an avalanche in southeastern Austria, police said.
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A mountain climber watched in horror as her guide plummeted to his death on New Zealand's highest mountain on New Year's Day, police said.
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The face of a man who died and was mummified in Egypt 3,000 years ago has been modeled, using special CAT scans and without unwrapping his bandages, Italian researchers said on Wednesday.
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A Briton has died after reportedly crashing into a barrier while sliding down an Italian mountain on a rubber mattress.
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A five-year-old Swiss girl who went missing some six weeks ago was found dead on Saturday, Swiss police said.
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Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest, dies aged 88.