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of the day's coolest stories. Coming up. Fight at 24,000 feet. We've got | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
the latest on the bizarre brawl up Mount Everest. A new plan to stop | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
shark attacks at a top tourist spot. And your must-do list before you | :00:20. | :00:30. | |
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But first, to the highest point on earth, Mount Everest in Nepal, where | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
a fight broke out this week between European climbers and local guides | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
called Sherpas. Both sides have now called a truce but the event on | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
Everest's slopes has sparked big questions about how people behave on | :00:40. | :00:49. | |
the world's tallest mountain. The mountaineers including one Briton | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
claimed they were attacked earlier this week. Nepalese guides who told | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
them to wait while they rate safety ropes, two of them have now | :00:56. | :01:03. | |
abandoned it, saying they no longer feel safe. John was on the mountain | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
and him and his two climbers say they were confronted by up to 200 | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
Sherpas, locals, and they are noted for their climbing skills. They | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
often accompany foreign climbers to the summit. John Griffiths said part | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
of the problem was some Sherpas don't feel they get the respect they | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
deserve from certain Western climbers. Joining me on the sofa is | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
top mountaineer Alan Hinkes, the first Briton to conquer all 14 of | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
the world's highest mountains, including Everest. How important are | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
Sherpas to climbers trying to reach the top? Essential for most climbers | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
on Everest. They help fix the ropes to make it safe to get to the top | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
and get back down but not all climbers need them but they work as | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
local guides in Nepal, just as I do in Britain. If I go to Nepal, I | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
would work as a foreign guide. We all get along well together. So the | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
relationship is fine? In general, they are fantastic people. I have a | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
lot of respect for the Sherpas and they have a lot of respect for me | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
and the other climbers and we are just normal human beings and we get | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
on well. One of Nepal's top tourism bosses has told us he's | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
investigating this fight. I think this will blow over and be a storm | :02:21. | :02:30. | |
in a teacup. Everyone is back to normal at base camp now. We will | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
apologise and forgive and forget. The Europeans have had to come | :02:34. | :02:44. | |
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home, obviously but it's a storm in a Nepalese teacup. Right, OK. Thank | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
you very much. What is it like to climb Everest and how can we go | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
about it if we had aspirations to do it? It does hurt, it is dangerous at | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
the top of Everest. It is a death zone. It's because of the thin air. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
It is very, very dangerous so I wouldn't recommend anybody does it | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
really. Certainly not when you are very young, anyway. There's | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
avalanches, rockfalls, vertical bits and the Sherpas will help to fix | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
those to make it safer. But it's quite a dangerous place. Treated | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
with respect. It's a fantastic challenge for anyone who does it. | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
There's only 3500 people who have climbed it. Not that many, really. | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
Thank you very much for coming in today. And for more of Alan's top | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
tips for climbing Everest, including training, all the kit you'll need, | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
how being so high up affects your body and to find out about the Death | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
Zone, jst head to the Newsround website. Next to a world first in | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
some of the planet's most shark-infested waters. Five people | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
have been killed and many injured by sharks at the Western Cape in South | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
Africa in the past decade. Now officials are trying out a new safe | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
net which they hope will save the lives of swimmers and sharks. The | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
thin mesh will be lowered in the morning and removed at night. Sharks | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
get really close to swimmers and surfers there. And it's hoped this | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
will keep them apart. There's more on this in Newsround at 6.50pm. Last | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
up, when was the last time you climbed a tree, built a den or rode | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
your bike? They are the top three activities in the National Trust's | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
new list of Things To Do Before You're 11 and three quarters. It is | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
very specific, isn't it? We've got the other 47 on our website, where | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
you've also been telling us what you think should have been on the list. | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
My favourite so far is Millie on the Isle of Wight. She says, "Eat | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
cookies watching Scooby Doo!" Not Newsround, Millie? That's an | :04:45. | :04:51. |