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The Fifth Floor: What price scaling Everest?

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Heavy traffic of mountain climbers lining up to stand at the summit of Mount Everest, May 22 2019 (AFP PHOTO/ PROJECT POSSIBLE)

31/05/2019 GMT

What price scaling Everest?

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Queues, casualties and a clean-up campaign on Nepal’s holy mountain

Overcrowding and rubbish on Mount Everest; My Home 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.  BBC Nepali’s Surendra Phuyal reports on the campaign to clean up the rubbish left behind by the climbers on Nepal's holy mountain.   

My Home Town: Calheta de Sao Miguel, Cape Verde
BBC 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.  BBC 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.  BBC 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 BBC 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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