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   Timeline of climbing Mount Everest

   Although there is no physical evidence of either man above the Second Step, it remains possible that if Mallory had surmounted the Second Step he could have reached the summit, as there are no difficult technical climbs higher up. ... Recently, on March 23, 2008, astronaut Scott Parazynski climbed Mount Everest.
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   The Wind from the Sun

   An astronaut father looks forward to returning home to his family on Earth, but is met by a life-threatening accident. ... A scientist, whom was born crippled, climbs Mount Everest with the aid of his levitation invention and the with the guidance of his promising assistant.
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   May 21

   2004 - Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu's record from the previous year. ... 1945 - Ernst Messerschmid, German astronaut
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   May 26

   2003 - Only three days after a previous record, Sherpa Lakpa Gelu climbs Mount Everest in 10 hours 56 minutes. ... 1951 - Sally Ride, American astronaut
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   List of Scouts

   Stipe Božić, alpinist, twice on Mount Everest ... Steve MacLean, astronaut
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   Peter Hillary

   Hillary has achieved two summits of Everest, an 84-day trek across Antarctica to the South Pole, and an expedition guiding astronaut Neil Armstrong to land a small aircraft at the North Pole. ... Mount Everest
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   Karl Gordon Henize

   NASA Astronaut Groups ... Mountaineering deaths on Mount Everest
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   List of QI episodes (E series)

   Lisa Nowak, whilst not going mad, tried to murder a fellow astronaut. ... Tangent: One-eighth of the people who attempt to climb Mount Everest die.
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   Scott E. Parazynski

   As a mountaineer, his summits include Cerro Aconcagua (at 22,841 feet (6,962 m) above sea level, the tallest mountain in the world outside of Asia), 48 of Colorado's peaks over 14,000 feet (4,300 m) in altitude and Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. ... Most recently, he served as Chief of the Astronaut Office EVA Branch.
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    1924

    March 1 - Deke Slayton, American astronaut (d. 1993) ... June 9 - Andrew Irvine, English mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (b. 1902)

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Timeline of climbing Mount Everest,
• The Wind from the Sun,
• May 21,
• May 26,
• List of Scouts,
• Peter Hillary,
• Karl Gordon Henize,
• List of QI episodes (E series),
• Scott E. Parazynski,
• 1924