The team were forced to turn back after an avalanche killed seven Sherpas who were helping carry equipment.

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Indeed, an elaborate network of officials, known as sherpas, has been in place almost since these summits began.

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It almost sounds like a G8 summit negotiation with sherpas or something.

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Sherpas store toilet and kitchen waste in metal drums and haul it 50km down to the town of Namche Bazaar, where it is used for compost.

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Sadly for him, the expedition was successful with four foreigners and six Sherpas reaching the top of the mountain but he was not among the team that reached the peak.

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Sherpas carried the group's backpacks and tools, but Cheung and her group hiked for four days to an elevation of 10, 000 feet and camped both in pouring rain and in zero-degree weather.

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The answer is it leaves the Americans, British and others trying to force the Europeans to cough up what G20 sherpas call "deliverables" on the future of the eurozone, before the rest of the world agrees to increase the firepower of the IMF.

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