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Friday, May 25, 2012

Rescue of Everest climber helps Israel-Turkey thaw

Rescue of Everest climber helps Israel-Turkey thaw
Jonathan Head By Jonathan Head BBC News, Istanbul

It isn't often these days that you see two men, arms round each other, holding Israeli and Turkish flags.

But an extraordinary rescue on the world's highest mountain has bonded two climbers, one from Israel and one a Turk.

By his own account Nadav Ben-Yehuda was only 300 metres from the summit of Mount Everest, and on course to become the youngest Israeli to conquer it, when he spotted someone lying in the snow, clearly in trouble.

More:BBC News - Rescue of Everest climber helps Israel-Turkey thaw