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A well-known computer scientist, he fell faster than the speed of sound and broke Baumgartner's world altitude record set just two years ago by jumping from 135,000 feet. Alan Eustace, 57, a senior vice president at Google, during his record breaking leap from 135,000 feet.
The new members of the climbing team included Noel Odell, Bentley Beetham and John de Vars Hazard. Andrew Sandy Irvine, an engineering student whom Odell knew from an expedition to Spitsbergen, was a so-called experiment for the team and a test for âyoung bloodâ on the slopes of Mount Everest.his altitude established a confirmed world record climbing altitude which was not surpassed for another 28 years; the 1952 Swiss Mount Everest Expedition, when Raymond Lambert and Tenzing Norgay reached 8,611 metres (28,251 ft) on the south side of Everest.