A sherpa climbed Everest for the 17th time - breaking his own record.The world breaking record sherpa Appa, who first conquered Everest in 1989, is three successful climbs ahead of rival sherpa Chewang Nima. About 2,000 people have reached the top since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first did so in 1953.

Police found more than 4000 pieces of lingerie in the home of a Japanese worker. He used his climbing skills to steal women underwear.Shigeo Kodama, 54, collected this underwear for more than 6 years. "Since he was a construction worker, as long as he had a place to put his feet he was able to climb, so he had no trouble getting up to the second floor of apartment buildings," a police spokesman said.Freaky.