12330GDACS EMM News Feed Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material Double amputee who his lost his feet climbing Everest 43 years ago finally reaches summithttps://www.denverpost.com/2018/05/14/xia-boyu-amputee-mount-everest/The first time Xia Boyu tried to climb Mount Everest, he lost his feet. It was 1975, and Boyu was headed up the mountain with a Chinese national mountaineering team. They had made it to 8,600 meters (about 28,215 feet), but that’s when a nasty winter storm set in.Tue, 15 May 2018 05:25:00 +0200denverpost-df86757b2656bc4c677b13d58b59a54420180515052500Double amputee who lost his feet climbing Everest 43 years ago finally reaches summithttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/14/double-amputee-who-his-lost-his-feet-climbing-everest-43-years-ago-finally-reaches-summit/?noredirect=onThe first time Xia Boyu tried to climb Mount Everest, he lost his feet. It was 1975, and Xia was headed up the mountain with a Chinese national mountaineering team. They had made it to 8,600 meters, but that’s when a nasty winter storm set in. For two days and three nights the team endured subzero....Mon, 14 May 2018 23:45:00 +0200WashingtonPost-036c8655eb1af5d6815417b5d34ab6d120180514234500Double amputee who his lost feet climbing Everest 43 years ago, reaches summit The Washington Posthttps://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/double-amputee-who-his-lost-his-feet-climbing-everest-43-years-ago-finally-reaches-summit/ar-AAxgeZp© Provided by WP Company LLC d/b/a The Washington Post The first time Xia Boyu tried to climb Mount Everest, he lost his feet. It was 1975, and Xia was headed up the mountain with a Chinese national mountaineering team. They had made it to 8,600 meters, but that’s when a nasty winter storm set in.Mon, 14 May 2018 19:46:00 +0200msn-uk-612520704929c556aa85f40c9f4887c62018051419460043 years later, double amputee finally reaches Everest summithttp://www.sentinelsource.com/news/national_world/years-later-double-amputee-finally-reaches-everest-summit/article_fb9462f9-3334-5419-92fe-b2b0afeaa10e.htmlThe first time Xia Boyu tried to climb Mount Everest, he lost his feet. It was 1975, and Boyu was headed up the mountain with a Chinese national mountaineering team. They had made it to about 28,215 feet, but that’s when a nasty winter storm set in. For two days and three nights the team endured....Mon, 14 May 2018 18:31:00 +0200sentinelsource-0b09b2e684f3c4127cdb0015122a6d9620180514183100