Landmark Skydive Planned for Everest

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  09.29.08 | 4:00 PM ET

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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.”

 

Tags: Adventure Travel, Mount Everest, Asia, Nepal, News and Briefs

Eva Holland is the senior editor of World Hum. Her writing has also appeared in Reader's Digest Canada, NationalGeographic.com, the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and WestJet's Up! Magazine, among other publications. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


1 Comment for Landmark Skydive Planned for Everest

Annette from tropicaltravel.net 09.29.08 | 6:04 PM ET

Very nice! Good luck to all!

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