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EverestNews Jul 1 2006 7:39PM GMT

Sports (as of 6:18 PM)Oracion reaches Everest summitFilipino mountaineer Heracleo "Leo" Oracion became the first Filipinoto reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain, onWednesday, DZMM reported.Arturo Valdez, leader of the First Philippine Mount Everest Expedition,said Oracion reached the summit of the 8, 848-meter mountain at 3:30p.m. (5:30 p.m. in Manila)."T he Philippine eagle has landed at the summit of Mt. Everest," Valdezquoted Oracion as saying.He said Oracion reached the Hillary stretch of the mountain at 12:30p.m., which is 1,000 meters away from the peak of the mountain.------ --------------- --------------- --------------- --------------- --------------- --------------- --------------- --------------- --------- Galing talaga ng Pinoy! Congratulations to Leo and to the rest of First Philippine Mount EverestExpediti on Team!

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The first double amputee to summit Mount Everest is backing off a claim that earned him international condemnation: That his team radioed down to his expedition leader about a dying climber and was told to continue on to the summit. New Zealander Mark Inglis had said that on his ascent in the early hours of May 15, he encountered 34-year-old David Sharp freezing to death under a small rock overhang near the mountain's summit. Inglis said that when he radioed the information down to expedition leader Russell Brice, he was told to push on.

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