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What price scaling Everest?

Overcrowding and rubbish on Mount Everest; My ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Town - Calheta de Sao Miguel, Cape Verde; who was Tara Fares; Tiananmen Square remembered; with David Amanor.

Mount Everest in Nepal draws hundreds of climbers every year to scale the world's highest peak. But the effort comes at a high price, both in lives lost, and the cost to the environment. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Nepali’s Surendra Phuyal reports on the campaign to clean up the rubbish left behind by the climbers on Nepal's holy mountain.

My ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Town: Calheta de Sao Miguel, Cape Verde
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Africa's Anne-Marie Dias Borges takes us to her home town in Cape Verde for stories of mermaids around the oil lamp, and non-stop dancing.

Who was Tara Fares?
Last September one of Iraq’s biggest Instagram stars was shot dead in a Baghdad street. Tara Fares was 22 years old, and seemed to live a carefree glamorous life. The attack was well organised, and no killer has been found. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Arabic journalist Alma Hassoun set out to find out more about Tara.

Remembering Tiananmen Square
It’s 30 years since the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Chinese editor Howard Zhang, then a student, skipped school with his friends to join the crowds. In 2014 he shared memories of the days running up to the brutal military crackdown.

India’s forest tribes
A law passed in India to give land rights to indigenous forest communities may become the instrument by which they are forced off their lands. Roxy Gagdekar Chhara of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Gujarati visited some forest tribes in his home state of Gujarat.

Image: queuing to reach the peak of Everest
Credit: AFP PHOTO/PROJECT POSSIBLE

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