A Nepalese couple got married on the summit of Mount Everest in 2005, being the first people to get married there.

17. In 1975, Junko Tabei, a Japanese woman, became the first woman to summit Mount Everest.

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18. There is 66% less oxygen in each breath on the summit than at sea level.

19. The first climbers to summit Everest without bottled oxygen were the Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner along with the Austrian mountaineer Peter Habeler in 1978.

20. Sherpas are the best guides on Everest. Providing guide services for mountaineering teams from various countries has become one of the main sources of income for Sherpas. They mainly live in Nepal, with a few scattered in China, India, and Bhutan.

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Whether you are a mountaineer wanting to48-hour exercise in simulated disaster preparedness, information exchange, and equipment demonstrations. And it does so while encouraging participation from international forces.

Israeli soldiers patrol an area in the West Bank town of Hebron on June 15, 2014, as they search for three teenagers who went missing near a West Bank settlement.

Past participants have included military and domestic security teams from Bahrain, Brazil, Jordan, Israel, and Qatar. (It’s worth noting that some of these countries have been routinely criticized for using excessive force against civilians.) This year, the Brazilian team is returning alongside Singapore’s Police STAR Unit and South Korea, according to the expo website.

The two-day trade show linked to the event also includes a slew of vendors from armored vehicles and weapons manufacturing companies, many of whom promote the