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Scores of heavy horses have been harnessed together at a heritage festival in southern New South Wales in what organisers say is a world record.

Aleks Berzins is farming the land in the same way his grandfather did, using draught horses for jobs now widely done by machines.

About 900 hikers, guides, and staff stranded by a snowstorm on Mount Everest's Chinese side have reached safety.