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KATHMANDU, Nepal — A Swiss climber and an American have died on Mt. Everest in the season’s first casualties on the world’s highest mountain, expedition organizers Thursday. A Swiss climber, Abdul Waraich, 41, scaled the peak before having difficulties, said Chhang Dawa of the expedition organizer, Seven Summit Treks in Nepal. “Abdul successfully reached the summit but began experiencing issues during his descent,” he said. “We sent two additional Sherpas with oxygen and food. Unfo...

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How Hard Is It To Climb Mount Everest Nepal abounds with unique natural phenomena such as winding rivers, enchanting mountain ranges, valleys, and plains. Despite being small in size, Nepal is rich in ethnic culture and is unique in diverse weather. Due to these natural phenomena, Nepal has developed as a tourism hotspot in the world. The tallest mountain in the world Mount Everest (8848.86 m) lies in Nepal. Therefore many adventurers around the globe visit Nepal for climbing Mount Everest for ...

I was up there with our guide, and he looked at me and was like, hey, were both really low on oxygen, we got to go. immediately got back in the cue to get down. as i mentioned, very quickly got stuck at the top of the hillary step, and from there, it just felt like five or six hours was just sort of, not to be dramatic, but like a race for my life. >> and ian was very fortunate because a sherpa who was part of his group came back with another bottle of oxygen, but others that he met on the mount...

Theyre lethargic. some of them are running out of oxygen. they have no way to know how long theyre going to be stuck there. >> correct. now youre depending on the expedition leaders to help coordinate that to see how they are. but essentially youre on one line. so if somebody is feeling unwell on the line, they have to come back. but there might be a whole line of people behind them, and then they have to clip and unclip, which is hard to do when youre on a knife edge or youre on hillary step. i...

You. moing -- joining me now is van jones. the president has had a checked past when it comes to race and justice this. back and forth and his targeting of joe biden and what is really a vulnerability, what do you think about this? >> well, look, politicians play politics and thats interesting, but for me, lets just take a step back. this is historic. we now have the president of the united states and the democratic front-runner competing on who can be the best on criminal justice reform. for my...

Issue when hes trying to explain his record? >> of course, this was 25 years ago. we were able to bring different views together in a major crime bill. the challenge was very close to the election when we finally passed it, but it included many important provisions for its time, and we -- it was a compromise. there were a lot of good things in the bill. there were things that turned out not to would be the way we wanted to. thats why weve changed the law enforcement the first step that passed in...

Technical mountain climber. youre saying its possible for somebody with relatively little experience, with enough money to have guides, sherpas, who essentially lead them up the mountain. >> correct. and thats something they think they can do but theres also people that are affected by that. so you have the sherpa, who are trying to help those people up the mountain. but then you have the other expeditions of experienced climbers who are also there, and everybody is on that single rope going up ...

Allowed it to go into shefect. on the other hand, they did uphold a lower court opinion that being blocked a controversial position, they can -- what we really saw here is the far right of the bench and the far left. they drew their battle lines. we saw justice clarence thomas saying, look, i understand what the court did today. i agreed. maybe in issue on that more restrictive law has to perk logan airport a little bit in the lower courts, but the supreme court cant wait forever. none of the ot...

That, but fundamentally youve got is a historic watershed thats showing up in the presidential election. both party trying to move. in the direction of reform. heres reality. trump can say was better than the obama administration on legislation because he passed the first step back. and hes worse than the obama administration saying that the department of justice under trump has began backwards, has not implemented the first stem act well enough so trump can be strong and say im better than you ...