1.   Some act as guide and porters for mountaineering expeditions.

2.   Some Sherpas act as guide and porters for mountaineering expeditions.

3.   The magazine also published a photograph of Harrer with Hitler, who was congratulating him on a mountaineering expedition.

4.   A sergeant of the United States special forces fell to his death during a mountaineering expedition in India, a U.S. embassy official said Sunday.

5.   He was participating in a multi-nation mountaineering expedition that also included soldiers from Britain, Australia, Nepal and India.

6.   The country is trying to attract more mountaineering expeditions, which have declined in the past few years.

7.   The Nepalese Tourism Ministry, which monitors all mountaineering expeditions in the country, said it had not received any official information from the expedition.

8.   The Tourism Ministry, which oversees all mountaineering expeditions, has formed a six-member force to coordinate the rescue in the two accidents.

9.   Three mountaineering expeditions of Chinese-Tibetans and South Koreans have climbed as many Himalayan peaks, the Tourism Ministry announced Sunday.