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Nepal: Everest Day low-key after quake
May 30 (TravelAndy): Everest Day was a low-key affair in Kathmandu on Friday, a little more than a month after the devastating April 25 earthquake that hit the Himalayan nation, reports said.
An avalanche triggered by the quake had destroyed the Everest base and killed 18 people.
New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his guide Tenzing Norgay had climbed the 8,848-metre peak on May 29, 1953. Continue reading Nepal: Everest Day low-key after quake