The bodies of six mountaineers who appear to have died in a Saturday avalanche were found by a hiker on the Neige Cordier summit near Grenoble on Sunday. The nationality of the climbers is not yet known.
French skyscraper climber Alain Robert, known as the “French Spiderman”, scaled Dubai’s 800 metre Burj Khalifa tower Monday. It took the 48-year-old daredevil six hours to conquer what became the world’s tallest building in 2010.
Afghans on the foothills of Whakan province have survived the Soviet invasion, fought off the Taliban and even claim to have triumphed over opium addiction. But there remained one summit to conquer: planting the national flag atop Mount Noshaq.
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