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Saturday, March 18, 2006

More than five decades ago, when Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa summitted Mt Everest — the highest peak in the world was regarded as the ultimate in adventure and heroism.

This year, glamour and more threatens to overrun the 8,848m peak with a Playboy cover girl being the latest among those attempting to reach the top. Martyna Wojciechowska, a Polish journalist and TV show hostess, has created a sensation with the news that she will be part of an Everest expedition via Tibet headed by Boguslav Ogrodnik.

Though she has summitted Kilimanjaro, Mount Blanc and Aconcagua, it is not Martyna’s prowess as a climber that has made her the talk of the town.

Martyna — dubbed the “Anna Kournikova” of the Himalayas, is a former cover girl of the Polish Playboy magazine. The cover shows her wearing attitude and a two-piece race car outfit. While the minuscule white blouse barely covers her bosom, the white trousers are unzipped all the way.

The Playboy cover ranks among the more modest photographs in Martyna’s album. There are dozens more showing her in the buff, on all fours and other provocative postures.

Martyna, associated with a TV show on cars, Automaniak, has no false modesty about her attractions. She candidly said that while she has several male friends, she has just one girl friend. “My male colleagues’ wives don't like me.”

A documentary is on the anvil after the expedition, including a DVD and a photo album, not to mention daily TV broadcasts and weekly reports in Poland.

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