Sherpas cancel plan to spread Hillary ashes on Everest

A plan to scatter some of the ashes of explorer Sir Edmund Hillary at the peak of Mount Everest has been called off.

Buddhist lamas had warned it would bring bad luck, so the Sherpas behind the plan said the ashes instead would be kept at a monastery near Everest.

The world's highest mountain is considered sacred to the Buddhist Sherpas who live in the region.