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Everest Climber Discovers Missing Friend Preserved in Ice

Seth Abramovitch · 06/23/11 10:59PM

As he approached the 29,000-foot peak of Mt. Everest, climber Rodney Hogg discovered the frozen body of his old friend, Peter Kinloch — a 28-year-old from Scotland who died of frostbite and exhaustion scaling the same path just months before. He told The Mirror:

13-Year-Old Scales Everest

Ravi Somaiya · 05/22/10 09:08AM

Jordan Romero, 13, from California has become the youngest person to climb the tallest mountain in the world. We predict it will be approximately three years until the first toddler makes the ascent. [BBC]