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Pregnancy is a memorable time in a woman’s life, but it’s the end result that’s even more incredible.

The gift of a child is remarkable and a newborn baby is one of life’s most perfect creations.

Their teeny tiny little hands and their downy heads beg to be kissed and just looking at those little faces will have you weeping with joy.

I wish I could bottle up that stage forever and yet itcomes and goes in an instant.


Babies are a bundle of joy.

However, they aren't just cute and adorable.

Their impressive set of skills and the amazing facts about them are wonderful.




Source: https://www.scoopwhoop.com/Interesting-To-Weird-Facts-About-Babies/#.r9q8mv9eu?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C6161967375http://www.viralnova.com/baby-facts/
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Researchers believe its effects would wear off within days, meaning he would again be fertile. By contrast, women are typically advised to stop taking the Pill weeks or even months before trying to conceive.

Family planning experts said a reversible male contraceptive could benefit millions of couples where the woman cannot take the Pill for medical reasons.

And it would save men from being trapped into having children they did not want, they added.

With global sales of contraceptives topping £13 billion a year, the market for a reversible male contraceptive could be huge.

Lead researcher Professor John Howl, of Wolverhampton University, described how effective their sperm-stopping agent had been in lab tests.

He said: ‘The results are startling and almost instant. When you take healthy sperm and add our compound, within a few minutes the sperm basically cannot move.

’Male infertility is often the result of poorly moving sperm, called ‘low motility’. Using this, the Wolverhampton team, together with Portuguese researchers, made a compound called a cell-penetrating peptide, which gets inside sperm and brings them to a standstill.

Prof Howl said: ‘This is a totally unique approach nobody else has ever done this before.

’Peptides are short chains of amino acids that can influence how human cells work. They occur naturally but biochemists can make synthetic versions.

Prof Howl and colleague Dr Sarah Jones first demonstrated that certain ‘cell-penetrating peptides’ could smuggle themselves inside sperm cells, like a Trojan horse.

British scientists have made a breakthrough in the search for a male contraceptive pill which could transform the sex lives of millions of couples.

For decades, researchers have tried to produce a reliable alternative to condoms or a vasectomy, but there has been little progress.

Now UK scientists have found the secret of making men temporarily infertile by ‘switching off’ sperm’s ability to swim.

They have made tiny ‘designer compounds’ which smuggle themselves into sperm, and stop their tails from wiggling.

If a sperm can’t swim, it has no chance of naturally fertilising a woman’s egg.

The key advance raises the prospect of a fast-acting pill that a man could take just hours or minutes before sex.



Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3863448/Male-Pill-moves-step-closer-British-scientists-discover-way-stop-sperm-swimming-men-just-sex.html

Ishilove:
Explorers, I'm your biggest fan

Feeling

Hmmmm.....Wetin Billionaires no go do

If God fit do am make i buy Avalon06/13 or Ford Explorers 2012, i don dey ok.

In the begining, many are called but few are chosen. Starting the expedition, traffic can be seen as climbers sets off.

One by one, they give up and turn back. Less than ten of these climbers will see the summit.

Lalasticlala

oyetpel:
So many things are attached to climbinh Mt Everest.

1) Some go there because they are depressed. So they go there to away from there normal life.

2) To some, it's a promise that they want to fulfill

3) To some like explorer said, is to break record, to get to where other people have not been before.

4) To some its the thrill, the party at the base camp, meeting people who have been to the summit, make history, sight seeing, of course Mt Everest is a wonder, the highest point on earth.

5) Nepal is rich because of this shiit, and its also a source of income to the Sherpas.

6) Even geographers go there to study the mountain.

They want to stand on top of the planet, the highest point. Feeling on top of the world, nothing like the moment.

There are lots of flags on this mountain, taking ours there someday.

Ishilove:
My brother, it is someone who has eaten to his satisfaction that will think of breaking records and doing what no other person has done. We're too busy trying to make ends meet to bother about making history.

Lol....They re busy also, but i think is just their way. They create time for adventure.

sisisioge:
Haaa! Na real wa o. I just can't fathom the reason anyone would leave the comfort of his or her home for stress and possible death in the name of adventure. It is well o.

Thats white for you, they derives fun going to the extreme.

Udochee:
at least me&my guys have summited the hills of èrin-íjesha falls and we descended successfully.
olumo rock & idanre hills are the next on the list. afterall na part of climbing...

Abi o, climbing na climbing na. E sa no get other name.

giantstrides:
Hiking boots, inflatable raft, knife and the rifle

inflatable raft and hiking boot?

ourema:
Perhaps that is why we are black Africans. We are content with owning a home, a car, a large amount of money, children and maybe grandchildren then we can happily say we have arrived. We are now ready to go to the great beyond. But even at that probably at the age of 100 years we will still struggle to Stay in this world.
Most whites are beyond concern about what to put in the mouth.
I feel we are unique and I am sure some day we will outgrow this mentality and moved on to something higher.
Just few years ago who could have thought that a Nigerian will tie a bomb around the waist and detonate it to kill himself and others.
Yet this is a reality in our lives.
We will get there Someday.

Am a lady chemist lol

The whites are after breaking records, making history, names, doing what no one has ever done, and seeing what no one has ever seen even if its going to cost them their lives. And thats why they are flying.

But we, all we want is a paper(Degree)even if we cant make a practical of whats on the paper, get a job/business, get a car, house, get married, have kids, and die.

adedayo3193:
Your mate dey climb mountain everest,na olumo rock u dey climb.u no dey shame?

One of the youngest kid to reach the summit of Everest.


Jordan Romero (born July 12, 1996), an American mountain climber Jordan was 13 years old when he reached the summit of Mt. Everest.

Romero was accompanied by his father Paul Romero, his step-mother Karen Lundgren, and three Sherpas, Ang Pasang Sherpa, Lama Dawa Sherpa, and Lama Karma Sherpa.

The previous record for youngest to climb Everest was held by Ming Kipa of Nepal who was 15 years old when she reached the summit in 2009.

Jordan was the youngest person to summit Everest until Malavath Poorna, an Indian girl summited when she was 13 and eleven months just one month younger than Jordan when he reached the summit.

He was inspired to climb the tallest mountains of each continent when he saw a painting in the hallway of his school that had the seven continents' highest mountains.


read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Romero

24SEVEN:
Mountaineers leaving their fellows who are sick and/or exhausted to die shows that there is no brother in jungle.

Its every man for himself up there bro.

Thomas15:
Interview Tips:
Tell me about yourself. The first Interview question always asked!

More on http://jobsandhints.com/category/interview-hints/

Bro, you should have taken this to Job&Vacancies section and get yourself a thread. This has nothing to do here, just derailing.

toms55:
Explorers good job bro, buh I want to ask can't those bodies be removed using an high altitude powered helicopter or any aircraft from above and flown down?

Actually there have been extractions, but they have to bring the bodies or injured down to camp 2 which can be suicidal. You can check the attached map on page 1.

I learnt choppers cant go beyond Camp 2, and most of these deaths occured after camp 3 or 4 at about 20,000ft.

freecocoa:
Our religious brethren this part of the globe, say the hairs come from the marine kingdom, explorers, you trying to say they are ignorant liars?

Kai! Blood and lice, I'm tempted to say I ain't having no weave on my head no more, but, who am I kidding?

Lol...Marine kingdom ko, Marine kingdom ni.

prettyjo:
it will still not make people to stop buying the hair

Sure..

Wildcards:
Very interesting thread.
Thanks OP.
Scaling the Everest is on my bucket list

Really? Do you have the heart bro?

Check the movie first, it will shock you.


True life story from 1996 disaster on Everest.



Rob Hall, a mountaineer who guides tourists to the summit.

1996 Rob made his 5th summit with two clients, a partner and other climbers.

On their way back, there was a storm at over 20,000ft on the mountain.

They died, but before Rob died, he called the base camp to patch him through to his pregnant wife at home.

He talked to his wife, apologized for not making it back home, named the unborn baby Sarah and he died.



His body remains on the mountain and others who lost their lives that day.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Hall?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C4964177355

This is one of the several bodies that have been found high up on the mountain and never identified.

George Mallory was a British schoolteacher who was born in 1886.

A naturally gifted mountain climber, he often climbed in the Alps and Wales. In 1921 and 1922, he was part of two of the first major expeditions to climb Everest.

The first one in 1921 was more to map out the mountain and the second expedition a year later came to an end after an avalanche killed seven people on Mallory’s team.

In 1924, Mallory was chosen for a third expedition. Just before he was about to set off, Mallory was asked why would anyone want to climb Everest andhe famously replied, “Because it’s there.”

On June 6, Mallory and another mountain climber named Andrew Irvine started their ascent and by June 8th, they had reached an altitude of 26,800 feet (the highest peak of Everest is 29,029 ft). They set off on the morning of June 8 to the summit and that was the last time that anyone saw themalive.

It’s unclear if Mallory and/or Irvine reached the peak. Mallory’s body was found in 1975 by Chinese climbers at 26,760 feet, but Irvine’s body was never found.

It’s believed that Mallory died from a bad fall. His body is still relatively well preserved, considering his body has been lying there for over 90 years.

Everest wouldn’t be conquered until 1953, when Sir Edmund Hillaryand Tenzing Norgay reached the summit.


http://www.toptenz.net/10-people-who-never-left-mount-everest.php

ednut1:
wat a terrible way to die chai. bt if pple did not take risks and adventures the world would not have developed sha. trust black pple they love their lives they rarely embark on such hehehe. still waiting for a black shark attack victim.

Lol..Nobody one die now bro. Funny part is, climbing the mountain can be very expensive.

It costs between $50,000 - $100,000 or even more sometimes. From training, to buying of climbing gears/equipments, portable air tank, masks, tents, hiring of a professional climber(s) as guides and so on.

Excluding Visa fee/air ticket to Nepal and hotel accommodations/feeding/medicals for about two weeks or more.

I also learnt tourists/climbers must pay Nepal government about $11,000 before climbing.

Francys was climbing with her husband Sergei in 1998 and the two became separated. With no way to communicate they never reunited, and met their ends alone on different parts of the mountain.

She died of exposure and suspected cerebral edema, while he appears to have died from a fall.

It’s usually too difficult to evacuate bodies from Everest, so some climbers passing by gave her a more dignified burial by covering her with an American flag.

Hannelore Schmatz.


On October 2, 1979, 39-year-old Hannelore Schmatz and her team led by her husband, had reached the summit of Mount Everest via the southern route.

On their way down, the expedition was forced to stop about 100 meters shortof Camp IV (there are four camps before the summit), where Schmatz collapsed and died from exhaustion.

Another climber, American Ray Genet, also died, but the rest of the team survived. In the ensuing years, Schmatz’s body haunted people climbing the southern route.

Her body was recognizable because it appeared to be sitting casually, still dressed in the clothes she died in.

Also, even though she was dead, her eyes were openand her hair would blow in the wind. In 1984, a Nepalese police officer and a Sherpa tried to move Schmatz’s body, but they died in the process.

After about 20 years, the wind pushed Schmatz’s body into a valley below where it remains to this day.

12. Chicken today contains 266% more fat and 33% less protein than it did 40 years ago.

11. A mother and father in Brazil discovered heart-breaking sketches (pictured) drawn by their five-year-old girl showing how she was allegedly sexually abused by a priest.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3851332/Parents-discover-heart-breaking-sketches-drawn-five-year-old-girl-showing-sexually-abused-priest-Brazil.html

Marko Lihteneker.


This Slovenian climber died descending the mountain in 2005. His body is a mere 160 vertical feet below the summit.

Shriya Shah Klorfine.

Shriya reached the summit in 2012, but died of exhaustion on the descent. Her bodies lies 1000 feet from the summit, draped in a Canadian flag.

David Sharp (Cause of death: Exposure/Exhaustion).


This British climber sat down to rest by GreenBoots, got cold and couldn’t continue on. Apparently other climbers passed David while he was still alive, but couldn’t help him without seriously endangering their own lives.

Green Boots.


Probably the most famous body that’s used as a marker is a body called “Green Boots,” located on the Northeast ridge near a limestone alcove at about 28,000 feet.

The body’s nickname comes from the green mountaineering boots that are still on the body’s feet.

It’s believed that the body is that of an Indian man named Tsewang Paljor, who was seen wearing green boots when he and his six man team climbed the mountain in 1996. On May 11, they were hit by a blizzard.

Paljor and two of his teammates continued up the summit, while the other three turned around. Apparently Paljor and his teammates reached the summit and radioed down to the base, saying that they had accomplished their mission. On the descent, Paljor hid in the cave from the blizzards, but he ultimately died from exposure in the cave while wearing the distinct boots.

Climbing Mount Everest is a four days expedition (from the Base camp - Camp iv)which climbers spends each night at each camp, excluding the weeks spent at the base came(training) to get the climbers/tourists body used to the high altitude.



Major causes of Death on Mountain Everest includes Altitude sickness, shortage or lack of oxygen at 8,000metres, ice collapse, storms, Avalanche, injuries from fall, exposure or health problems related to conditions on the mountain.


Not all bodies have been located, more are missing, so details on those fatalities are not available.

Mountain Everest, the highest point on the planet at a height of 8,848 meters.

Mount Everest's summit is located within the 'death zone,' an area of the mountain which is above 8,000 meters.

In the 'death zone' prolonged life is essentially impossible as the lack of oxygen and pressure means the body will eventually shut down over time.

More than 4,000 people have successfully climbed Mount Everest since Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first recorded climbers to reach the summit in 1953.

But there are many more thousands who tried and failed, with hundreds paying the ultimate price.



Today, it's estimated that there are more than 250 dead bodies resting on the mountain.


Over 250 bodies, left exposed out in the elements, some for decades and well preserved because of the freezing temperature.

Some bodies, like that of a young Indian climber named Tsewang Palijor, are so well-known that they are used as landmarks by other climbers on their way to the peak.

Palijor died during a blizzard in 1996, still wearing his full equipment, including a pair of neon green boots.

For years, climbers on Everest's north side knew they were getting close to the summit if they saw Palijor's body.

When snow cover is light, some climbers have even had to step over his extended legs on their way through.

Why so many bodies remain on the mountain years after the person's death is due to a few different factors.

One, some mountaineers and professional climbers who die on the mountain prefer to remain there, co-opting a tradition from seafarers more than a hundred years ago, according to the BBC.


But the major reason so many bodies are left in open view is due to the expense and danger involved with removing them.

Returning a body to a family can cost thousands of dollars and require help from six to eight people, all of whom may be putting their own lives in danger just to retrieve someone else.

And actually tryingto get a body back down the mountain can be incredibly difficult.

"Even picking up a candy wrapper high up on the mountain is a lot of effort, because it's totally frozen and you have to dig around it," said Ang Tshering Sherpa, president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association to the BBC.

"A dead body that normally weighs 80kg might weigh 150kg when frozen and dug out with the surrounding ice attached."

In 2007, Ian Woodall, a British climber, returned to Everest to bury the bodies of three climbers he passed on his way to the summit.

One of the climbers, a woman named Francys Arsentiev, was still alive when Woodall reached her during his initial ascent.

Her first words to him were"don't leave me behind."

The grim reality, though, is that Woodall could not have done anything for her without jeopardizing his own life or the lives of his team members.

He was forced to leave her to perish alone.

Climbing Mount Everest has become much safer over the past decade thanks to advances in technology and climbing gear.

Satellite phones allow a climber to stay in contact with base camp to get constant updates on weather systems in the area. A better understanding of exactly what kind and how much gear to take has also caused the death toll to drop dramatically.




http://www.starpulse.com/the-problem-with-the-200-dead-bodies-on-everest-1904549061.html