Visitors who are not experienced rock climbers can follow a steep man-made path that takes them to the top.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

At indoor centers, climbers have many different paths they can use to get to the top of the walls.

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On May twenty-ninth, nineteen fifty-three, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to reach the summit of Everest.

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Climbers can survive above eight thousand meters because they spend months climbing on the mountain to get used to the conditions.

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The National Park Service says it will limit the number of climbers to about two hundred a day.

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Climbers wear ropes and attach devices to the rocks as they climb many hundreds of meters up.

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Most climbers make the trip in late April and May when weather conditions are the least severe.

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British climbers were the first to try to reach the place called "the top of the world."

VOA: special.2011.05.10

The first and most famous of the climbers to disappear on Mount Everest was George Mallory.

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Artists and twin brothers Doug and Mike Starn and a team of rock climbers have been building a work called "Big Bambu" since April.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

This nest is made up of thousands of pieces of bamboo tied together with the kind of brightly colored rope usually used by mountain climbers.

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In nineteen ninety-nine, climbers set off to search for the remains of Mallory and Irvine.

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Climbers often need to lock their bodies to the rock with one small finger hold.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

John Geiger points out that these Third Man experiences are very common among mountain climbers.

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And climbers sometimes have to hold on to rocks by only their fingers or toes.

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Several things have made climbing Everest easier now than it was for the first climbers.

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Climbers have to pull themselves straight up the face of very high rocks or walls.

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Expert rock climbers say only the very best in the sport should do it.

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The climbing is very slow. Climbers must look for cracks in the rock.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

Several books by climbers have described the incident and the dangerous conditions.

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He was a member of a group of climbers called the Stonemasters.

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Some expert climbers have begun leading guided trips up the mountain.

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Two of the world's best climbers were among those killed.

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Climbers have reached the summit more than three thousand times.

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Climbers in the study were from ages two to seventy-four.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

Many climbers like bouldering because they can use less equipment.

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But those people probably would not be rock climbers.

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Climbers often need only special shoes and chalk.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

Experienced rock climbers love Seneca Rocks.

VOA: special.2009.07.20