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Memory Quizzes Now Available Online as Two-Time USA Memory Champion Nelson Dellis Begins Final Ascent to the Top of Mt. Everest SALT LAKE CITY, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Two-time USA Memory Champion Nelson Dellis has begun his final ascent to the top of Mount Everest. Dellis and datacenter technology leader Fusion-io are teaming up to raise awareness of the importance of memory in our minds and datacenters by showcasing Dellis' Mt. Everest Memory Challenge at...

Explore Tibet, a Lhasa-based tour company, is offering an overland tour from Tibet to Kathmandu, Nepal. The 8-day trip includes a trip to Mount Everest Base Camp. (PRWEB) April 13, 2013 Explore Tibet, a Lhasa-based tour company, is offering an overland tour from Tibet to Kathmandu, Nepal. The 8-day trip includes a trip to Mount Everest Base Camp. “This trip is one of the most popular adventure tours in the world, but it was closed to foreign tourists in 2012, but now it is opened”...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online George Lowe, the last surviving member of Sir Edmund Hillary’s team that scaled Mount Everest in 1953, died on Wednesday at a nursing home in central England after a long-term battle with illness. Besides being one of the first men to reach the top of the world, Lowe also participated in the first crossing of Antarctica via the South Pole in 1957-58. He also made notable expeditions to Greenland and Ethiopia. Lowe and Hillary were...

LONDON, March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading car hire comparator Carrentals.co.uk has announced it will be supporting the Ski 4 Cancer charity on its latest fundraising scheme in France. Ski 4 Cancer will be staging a charity challenge in La Tania on the 20th and 21st of March, in which entrants attempt to ski either the vertical height of Mont Blanc (4807 metres) or Everest (8848 metres) in just one day. The challenge will focus on the green, blue or red pistes,...

Explore Tibet, a Lhasa-based tour company, is currently offering biking tours to the region. Starting in Lhasa, and lasting for 20 days, the tour finishes in Nepal. (PRWEB) March 03, 2013 Explore Tibet, a Lhasa-based tour company, is currently offering biking tours to the region. Starting in Lhasa, and lasting for 20 days, the tour finishes in Nepal. The everest base camp trek passes through some of Tibet’s most famous and scenic attractions, including lakes, glaciers and the base camp...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online India collided with Asia, creating the Himalayas, 10 million years later than previously thought, according to new research published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL). MIT researchers found that the collision between India and Asia occurred 40 million years ago, rather than the previous belief of 50 million years ago. “India came running full speed at Asia and boom, they collided,” Oliver Jagoutz, an author of the...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Filmmaker David Breashears has created a spectacular, two-billion pixel zoom image of Mount Everest to show the effects of climate change in the Himalayas. The interactive photograph reveals stunning details of the world’s highest peak, allowing viewers to ‘navigate’ around base camp and the mountain. Breashears captured 477 individual images to compose the gigapixel panorama of the Khumbu glacier from the Pumori...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The Himalayan glaciers are going to continue to shrink, no matter which way the temperatures go, according to new research published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Summer Rupper, a geology professor at Brigham Young University, has just returned from her research in the Bhutan region of the Himalayas and has reported findings that nearly 10% of these glaciers will disappear within the next 30 years. She also...

TAOS, N.M., Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The poster was created to honor the 50(th) Anniversary of the first five American mountaineers to reach the Everest's summit in May 1963, and the entire expedition that supported that historic effort. The poster, created by artist Elizabeth Mercuri, is being released in a numbered, Limited First Edition of only 250, and is available exclusively on the website of the Himalayan Stove Project http://www.himalayanstoveproject.org. The poster...

NEW DELHI, September 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mediakraft will launch its travelogue documentary series 6.9 Sikkim Rising LIVE via its online channel http://www.SikkimRising.TV on September 28, 2012. The Event will be held at Studio 1D of the Asian Academy of Film & Television, Marwah Studios, Film City, Sector 16A, NOIDA, UP, India at 4.30pm (IST)/(11:00am GMT). All Press and Documentary lovers are invited, seating is limited to 100 seats. Whole event will be webcast LIVE...