Landmark Skydive Planned for Everest
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 09.29.08 | 4:00 PM ET
If all goes according to plan, at least 34 skydivers will jump out of a plane and free-fall past the summit of Mount Everest Thursday. The jumps will be the first ever attempted at Everest. Remarked the jump’s organizer, “This will be the most important event in the Himalayan adventure since 1953.”
Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.
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Annette from tropicaltravel.net 09.29.08 | 6:04 PM ET
Very nice! Good luck to all!