JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Global warming is melting glaciers around Mount Everest, threatening the environment and local people, the first man to climb the world's tallest peak said on Monday as he called on the United Nations to act.
Sir Edmund Hillary, who reached Everest's summit with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953, said he was backing calls by pressure groups such as Friends of the Earth for the U.N. cultural body UNESCO to place the mountain on its endangered list.
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