Saturday, October 04, 2008

Mount Everest gets set for its first sky divers

The Mount Everest region will this weekend see something it has never witnessed before, when 32 sky-divers start parachuting down in front of it.

They will start from an altitude higher than the mountain itself.

The event's British organiser says a dream he has nurtured for a decade is finally coming true.



Plans for the adventure travellers to begin jumping yesterday were delayed when thick cloud descended. The sky-dive is now due to start today.

The sky-divers, some solo and some attached to professionals, plan to freefall for a minute before opening their chutes for about eight minutes.

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