Getting high on Everest

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Updated on May 30, 2013 01:23 am IST

File photo: This black and white historical photograph dated July 3, 1953 shows Mount Everest conquerors Edmund Hillary (R) and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay (L) at London's Heathrow airport on their arrival from the expedition. AFP PHOTO

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Updated on May 30, 2013 01:23 am IST

Statues of Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa (R), the first climbers to conquer Mount Everest in 1953, are decorated with garlands during the 60th anniversary of their ascent, in Kathmandu. REUTERS

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Updated on May 30, 2013 01:23 am IST

Members of the police brass band perform during an event marking the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa's conquest of Mount Everest, in Kathmandu. REUTERS

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Updated on May 30, 2013 01:23 am IST

A woman wearing traditional ornaments participates in a parade marking the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa's conquest of Mount Everest, in Kathmandu. REUTERS

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Amelia Rose Hillary, granddaughter of Edmund Hillary, participates in a function to mark the 60th anniversary of the conquest of Mount Everest at the British Embassy, in Katmandu, Nepal. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest. Since then thousands of people have reached the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

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Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner prepares to offer a garland over the statues of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary during the Mount Everest Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Kathmandu. AFP PHOTO

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In this file photograph taken on May 19, 2009, unidentified mountaineers walk past the Hillary Step while pushing for the summit of Everest as they climb the south face from Nepal. AFP PHOTO

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Updated on May 30, 2013 01:23 am IST

A cake in the shape of Mount Everest is pictured during a program organized at the British Embassy of Nepal to mark the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa's conquest of Mount Everest in Kathmandu. REUTERS

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Updated on May 30, 2013 01:23 am IST

Indian mountaineers Tashi and Nancy Malik, noted for being the first twin sisters to summit Everest earlier this month, pose while participating in a procession for Everest summitteers during the Mount Everest Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Kathmandu. AFP PHOTO

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People celebrating 'Everest Day' at Tenzing Norgay Statue park in Siliguri, West Bengal. PTI Photo

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Kancha Sherpa, a team member of the 1953 Mount Everest expedition that placed Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary on the summit of the world's highest mountain, gestures after offering garlands over the statues of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary during the Mount Everest Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Kathmandu. AFP PHOTO

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Updated on May 30, 2013 01:23 am IST

80-year-old Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura, who became the oldest conqueror of Mount Everest, speaks to media upon his arrival at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo. Miura, a Japanese former extreme skier, conquered the mountain on May 23 despite undergoing heart surgery in January for an irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia, his fourth heart operation since 2007. He also broke his pelvis and left thigh bone in a 2009 skiing accident. AP Photo

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Updated on May 30, 2013 01:23 am IST

In this May 31, 2008 file photo, Min Bahadur Sherchan, center, who became the oldest person to climb Mount Everest on May 25, 2008, shakes hands on his arrival in Katmandu, Nepal. The 81-year-old Nepalese man has abandoned his attempt to climb Mount Everest, leaving Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura with the record as the oldest person to scale the world's highest mountain. AP Photo

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In this May 25, 2013 photo, Arunima Sinha who became India’s first amputee woman to conquer Mount Everest on a prosthetic leg poses for photographs at Lobuche, Nepal. A former Indian volleyball player, Arunima lost her left leg when she was thrown off a moving train two years ago. AP Photo

Getting high on Everest

File photo: This black and white historical photograph dated July 3, 1953 shows Mount Everest conquerors Edmund Hillary (R) and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay (L) at London's Heathrow airport on their arrival from the expedition. AFP PHOTO

Statues of Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa (R), the first climbers to conquer Mount Everest in 1953, are decorated with garlands during the 60th anniversary of their ascent, in Kathmandu. REUTERS

Members of the police brass band perform during an event marking the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa's conquest of Mount Everest, in Kathmandu. REUTERS

A woman wearing traditional ornaments participates in a parade marking the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa's conquest of Mount Everest, in Kathmandu. REUTERS

Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner prepares to offer a garland over the statues of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary during the Mount Everest Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Kathmandu. AFP PHOTO

In this file photograph taken on May 19, 2009, unidentified mountaineers walk past the Hillary Step while pushing for the summit of Everest as they climb the south face from Nepal. AFP PHOTO

A cake in the shape of Mount Everest is pictured during a program organized at the British Embassy of Nepal to mark the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa's conquest of Mount Everest in Kathmandu. REUTERS

Indian mountaineers Tashi and Nancy Malik, noted for being the first twin sisters to summit Everest earlier this month, pose while participating in a procession for Everest summitteers during the Mount Everest Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Kathmandu. AFP PHOTO

People celebrating 'Everest Day' at Tenzing Norgay Statue park in Siliguri, West Bengal. PTI Photo

In this May 25, 2013 photo, Arunima Sinha who became India’s first amputee woman to conquer Mount Everest on a prosthetic leg poses for photographs at Lobuche, Nepal. A former Indian volleyball player, Arunima lost her left leg when she was thrown off a moving train two years ago. AP Photo

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