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Hillary Step

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The Hillary Step is, or possibly was, a nearly vertical rock face with a height of around located high on Mount Everest at approximately above sea level. [1]

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Aiguille du Dru

The Aiguille du Dru (also the Dru or the Drus; French, Les Drus) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps.

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Anatoli Boukreev

Anatoli Nikolaevich Boukreev (Анато́лий Никола́евич Букре́ев; January 16, 1958 – December 25, 1997) was a Russian Kazakhstani mountaineer who made ascents of 10 of the 14 eight-thousander peaks, i.e., peaks above, without supplemental oxygen.

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Aoraki / Mount Cook

Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand.

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April 2015 Nepal earthquake

The April 2015 Nepal earthquake (also known as the Gorkha earthquake) killed nearly 9,000 people and injured nearly 22,000.

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Choke point

In military strategy, a choke point (or chokepoint) is a geographical feature on land such as a valley, defile or a bridge or at sea such as a strait, which an armed force is forced to pass, sometimes on a substantially narrower front and therefore greatly decreasing its combat power, to reach its objective.

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Dave Hahn

David Allen Hahn (November 3, 1961, Okinawa, Japan) is a professional mountain guide, ski patroller, journalist and lecturer.

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David Liaño Gonzalez

David Liaño González (born December 19, 1979) is the first mountaineer to double summit on Mount Everest from both the Nepal and Tibet sides, which he has climbed six times so far.

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Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary OSN (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist.

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Fixed rope

In mountaineering, a fixed rope or fixed line is the practice of fixing in place bolted ropes to assist climbers and walkers in exposed mountain locations.

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Garrett Madison

Garrett Madison (born November 3, 1978) is an American mountaineer and guide.

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Hillary Montes

The Hillary Montes Or (less officially, Hillary Mountains) are mountains that reach above the surface of the dwarf planet Pluto.

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Hillary Peak

Hillary Peak is the name which has been proposed by the Government of Nepal for a peak in the Himalayas in honour of Edmund Hillary, who made the first ascent of Everest with Tenzing Norgay in 1953.

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Hindustan Times

Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movement of the period ("Hindustan" being a historical name for India).

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Mount Everest

Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmāthā and in Tibetan as Chomolungma, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.

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Mount Everest in 2017

The Mount Everest climbing season of 2017 began in spring with the first climbers reaching the top on May 11, from the north side.

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Nepal Mountaineering Association

The Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) is the national mountaineering association of Nepal.

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Peter Hillary

Peter Edmund Hillary (born 26 December 1954) is a New Zealand mountaineer, philanthropist and writer.

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South Summit (Mount Everest)

The South Summit of Mount Everest in the Himalayas is the second-highest peak on Earth, and is a subsidiary peak to the primary peak of Mount Everest.

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Tenzing Norgay

Tenzing Norgay GM OSN (tendzin norgyé; 29 May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi and often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepali Sherpa mountaineer.

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The Climb (book)

The Climb (1997), republished as The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest, is an account by Russian-Kazakhstani mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev of the 1996 Everest Disaster, during which eight climbers died on the mountain.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Three Steps

The Three Steps are three prominent rocky steps on the northeast ridge of Mount Everest.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Step

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