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Global warming ravaging Mount Everest
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7-6-2007 10:51 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7890be5b-b3c4-450d-a48f-7e9e912f2bd4/DDEDF78A-366B-4850-99C1-C88D4F8788BA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070706/sc_afp/environmentclimate_070706112733" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070706/sc_afp/environmentclimate_070706112733" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070706/sc_afp/environmentclimate_070706112733"><H1> <DIV class="source"> <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/afp/brand/SIG=ofqlv2;_ylt=AiO6mct08ZgcQ8iOGVtLcfXQOrgF/*http://www.afp.com"><IMG width="100" height="45" border="0" alt="AFP" src="http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/afp_lo_1.gif" /></A> </DIV> Global warming ravaging Mount Everest, sons of conquerors say </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070706/sc_afp/environmentclimate_070706112733"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/62FDAF5C-1966-4446-A702-2E4064E90887" alt="The sons of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, the men who first reached the summit of Mount Everest 54 years ago, said global warming is radically changing the face of the world's tallest mountain.(AFP/File/Sam Taylor)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070706/sc_afp/environmentclimate_070706112733"><P> LONDON (AFP) - Global warming is radically changing the face of <SPAN id="lw_1183721366_0">Mount Everest</SPAN>, the sons of the men who first reached its summit 54 years ago said in an interview published Friday. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070706/sc_afp/environmentclimate_070706112733"><P> The sons of Sir <SPAN id="lw_1183721366_1">Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay</SPAN> told British newspaper The Independent that their fathers would no longer recognise the world's highest mountain, saying the base camp is now 40 metres (132 feet) lower than it was 53 years ago.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070706/sc_afp/environmentclimate_070706112733"><P> "Climate change is happening. This is a fact," Hillary's son Peter said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070706/sc_afp/environmentclimate_070706112733"><P> "Base camp used to sit at 5,320 metres. This year it was at 5,280 metres because the ice is melting from the top and side. Base camp is sinking each year," said Peter Hillary, who himself has twice reached Everest's summit.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070706/sc_afp/environmentclimate_070706112733"><P> "For Sherpas living on Mount Everest this is something they can see every day but they can't do anything about it on their own," he added.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DDEDF78A-366B-4850-99C1-C88D4F8788BA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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