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(MountEverest.net) "Another disappointment when I put down the phone." "The food industry wouldn't support my attempt on Everest as they had just signed a contract with a guy from Wyoming who had plans to carry a bottle of ketchup to the summit." <cutoff><b>FIRST ON EVEREST</b><i>An opinionated satire by Bob A. Schelfhout Aubertijn</i>"A world's first, as they announced it. I was left bereaved in the same way when the pharmaceuticals had turned me down. And the fast-food franchise that didn't want to be associated with an egg on a spoon.""The big mountains had attracted a lot of weird folk over the...