mt everest
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The First Man To Ride A Bicycle Up Everest, From His Den
Frank Garcia reached the summit of Mt Everest after pedalling a total of 265km across 17 hours and 18 minutes, averaging a seven per cent grade and had to consume over 75,312kJ of food to make it. “It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” he told us.
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Everest Climber Discovers Missing Friend Preserved In Ice
As he approached the 29,000-foot (8839m) 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: