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Performance of the Week
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In 8 hr. 10 min., Nepalese mountaineer
Pemba Dorje Sherpa
completed the fastest-ever ascent of Mount Everest from base camp last week, shaving more than two hours off the old record. Pemba Dorje's feat was one of survival as well as speed: in the same week, four climbers died on Everest....
