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Conquering Everest: What you didn’t know about Sir Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, and the first trip to the top of the world
People | June 6, 2019 In case you haven’t seen the news recently, let’s catch you up on the news for Nepal. This climbing season, more climbers than ever before are attempting…
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Erik Weihenmayer: Blind to failure
Scaling Mount Everest requires the enthusiasm and boosterism of a physical-education teacher combined with the survival instinct of a Green Beret. You have to want that summit. Erik Weihenmayer, 33, wasn’t just…
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Nothing is written unless they write it
My all-time favourite film is ‘Lawrence Of Arabia’ and, if I have a favourite scene from the movie, then I guess it is the one of Lawrence’s triumphal return from the Nefud…
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Overcoming the void: How mountaineer Joe Simpson survived the impossible
Discover the incredible true story of mountaineer Joe Simpson’s survival on Siula Grande and the mindset shift that can help you beat impossible odds What does it take to survive when every…
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How to change the world
The ninth week of (US Navy) SEAL training is referred to as Hell Week. It is six days of no sleep, constant physical and mental harassment and one special day at the…
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D-Day
After giving the final order for the D-Day Invasion to begin on June 6, 1944 — after his commanders had rushed out to carry out the order, after the press had been…
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Unexploded bomb squads
In Churchill’s Memoirs of The Second World War, he tells the story of the unexploded bomb squads, or U.X.B squads. During the bombardment of England, the Nazis dropped large numbers of delayed-action bombs.…
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Towering humility
The dramatic photograph of Tenzing Norgay on the summit of Everest went around the world. Later people wondered why there was no similar picture of Hillary. The explorer wrote that he had…
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Friendship
Horror gripped the heart of the World War I soldier as he saw his lifelong friend fall in battle. Caught in a trench with continuous gunfire whizzing over his head, the soldier…
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Dashrath Manjhi, The Mountain Man
An extraordinary common man from Gaya, Bihar, single-handedly bored through a mountain for over two decades to make a commutable path that would take his village closer to the outside world. For…
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Kartik Sawhney and his extra-ordinary vision
Feb. 2016: Kartik Sawhney is currently an undergraduate, doing his Bachelors in Computer Science at Stanford University. While he is among the many Indian students studying in the US, what sets him apart…