At 11:30 on the morning of May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest, 29,028 feet above sea level, the highest spot on earth. As remarkable as the feat of reaching the summit, was the treacherous climb back down the peak.

Some sites to help in this effort:

• My Story: Edmund Hillary & Mt. Everest
  This content resource is part of the Hillary Conquers Everest Series. This index page provides links to the many different sites in this series containing information, activities, pictures and more.
  http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/hillary/index.htm

• NOVA Online | Lost on Everest
  The site is an intensive look at the personalities, dangers, history, culture, and lore surrounding the world's highest mountain. Features information about the 1999 expedition to find George Mallory as well as details on surviving Everest.
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/

• Everest History
  2249 Summits of Everest (and counting) details here, as well as: Time Line Details, Routes, Climbers Pages, K2 summit to date, History of K2 summits and more.
  http://www.everesthistory.com

• Mount Everest - Wikipedia
  Everest is the highest mountain on Earth (as measured from sea level ). The summit ridge of the mountain marks the border between Nepal and Tibet . In Nepal , the mountain is called Sagarmatha (Sanskrit for "Forehead of the Sky") and in Tibetan Chomolangma or Qomolangma ("Mother of the Universe")...
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest

Good Luck!

All "new" NetSupport School v8 is a class leading training software solution, providing teachers and trainers with the ability to interact with their students either individually, as a pre-defined group or to the overall class.

With NetSupport School, teachers and trainers can improve classroom instruction by centrally instructing students on the PCs, keep students on task by monitoring application and web usage and save time by quickly polling the class and showing instant results.

New Lesson Plan Suite provides the ability to create fully automated pre-defined lesson plans. Simply select the required elements from a pick list and drag onto the planner. When running, a progress bar will advise the teacher on the current activity and the time remaining.

This week features a new offering from The Library of Congress:

France in America / France en Amérique
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/fiahtml/
The Library of Congress and the National Library of France (la Bibliothèque nationale de France) have launched a bilingual online presentation that explores the history of the French presence in North America and the interactions between the French and American peoples from the early 16th to the early 19th centuries.

The English and French presentations each include more than 100,000 images from the rare book, manuscript, map and print collections of the Library of Congress and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Among the items available on the site are print versions of Samuel de Champlain's "Voyages," Jacques Marquette's account of his voyage of 1673, Theodor de Bry's late 16th-century illustrations of Native American >villages, narratives by French officers who participated in the American Revolution and rare maps from the Rochambeau Collection in the Library of Congress and the d'Anville Collection in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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