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Running up Everest: over 150 runners complete grueling marathon

Handout photograph released by Himex, the organizers of the Tenzing-Hillary Everest Marathon, participants of the marathon are flagged off at Everest Base Camp in Nepal's Solukhumbu district on Tuesday, May 29.
Handout photograph released by Himex, the organizers of the Tenzing-Hillary Everest Marathon, participants of the marathon are flagged off at Everest Base Camp in Nepal's Solukhumbu district on Tuesday, May 29.Himex via AFP - Getty Images
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AFP reports: KATHMANDU — More than 150 hardy competitors braved the rarified air and bone-chilling temperatures of Mount Everest on Tuesday to take part in the world's highest marathon, organisers said.

The Tenzing-Hillary Everest Marathon is part of annual celebrations marking the first conquest of the 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) summit on May 29, 1953, by Sir Edmund Hillary and his sherpa Tenzing Norgay

 

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