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Nepali mountaineer Appa Sherpa broke his own world record by summitting Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, for a breathtaking seventeenth time.(AFP/File/Devendra M. Singh)


1 posted on 05/16/2007 12:00:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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Super Sherpa expedition web site: http://www.supersherpas.com


2 posted on 05/16/2007 12:00:25 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... In FReeP We Trust ...)
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To: NormsRevenge

Appa, who now lives with his family in Utah...

WTF.

We’re now importing Sherpas???


3 posted on 05/16/2007 12:02:44 PM PDT by proudpapa (Forget Rudy McRomney it's Duncan Hunter in '08!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Showoff! :-)


8 posted on 05/16/2007 12:12:26 PM PDT by Flashman_at_the_charge (A proud member of the self-preservation society)
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To: NormsRevenge

I think he is just making a mountain out of a mole hill!


11 posted on 05/16/2007 12:31:05 PM PDT by longhorn too
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Everest has a fatality rate around 8%. 186 people have died trying to reach the summit, and many of the corpses are still lying along the routes to the summit.


12 posted on 05/16/2007 12:31:32 PM PDT by Spirochete
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To: NormsRevenge

Very impressive. This guy must be in some kind of incredible shape!


23 posted on 05/16/2007 12:49:05 PM PDT by jpl
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44 posted on 05/16/2007 2:44:45 PM PDT by dennisw ("Libertarianism is applied autism" - Steve Sailer)
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