Well, so that's, you know, that's what I've been tossing around in my own mind. I have some pretty big doubts about this. I mean, who wouldn't? How often do you get anybody who goes out on a limb like that and is saying virtually tomorrow night, between 9.50 and midnight, the biggest UFO event of the century is going to happen.

Pretty far out on a rope, I'd say.

Far enough that it doesn't necessarily make sense to me that he would do it.

Well, but it'll be interesting to see what happens, so there you have my comments on it, for what they're worth.

Now, this is a pretty interesting story. The amount of ice around the world's highest mountain

has declined in a spectacular fashion, providing the startling evidence of the damage caused by global warming.

A group of mountaineers returning from a special UN-backed expedition to the Himalayas said all this.

Everything they said, the impact of climate change, was there to see.

There is no doubt about climate as in the Himalayan ranges.

It has become warmer and wetter.

We're talking here about Mount Everest.

The expedition to 60, 189 meters, that's high island peak, only 8 kilometers south of Mount Everest,

was part of an attempt by the UN Environment Program to

immobilized climbers to make a practical contribution to observations on climate change.

Payne, who headed the group, said the mountain received its name from the first climbers to ascend the mountain in 1953,

same year as Sir Edmund Hillary, conquered Everest

because it stood out as a peak emerging from an island of ice. Where you go to that

mountain right now, you don't see rising as an island in a sea of ice. You see rising out

of an island of rubble, old reporters.

He noted that a few ponds, which used to surround Island Peak, had grown into a two-kilometer long, deep lake.

A lot of Milton going on there, folks. The ice fields that had helped Hillary and Sherpa, tens on the first descent of Everest have also shrunk, moving back, get this folks, six kilometers back in 1953.

When Hillary tensing set off to climb Everest, they stepped out of base camp and straight onto ice. Today, they would have, had to have walked today far more than two hours, two hours before they even would get to the ice.

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