The Brits went higher last year though:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/2971339.stm
Yeah, they're the ones who broke our record :-) We still held the record for the highest ironed summit, but even that's gone now. The current record's 6,959m and is unlikely to be broken (by mountaineers, at least) in the foreseeable future...
http://www.extremeironing.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=97
Hopefully someone'll smuggle an iron on board a manned Mars mission - now that *would* be Extreme!! ;-)
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