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June 25, 2002

Everest South Summit, Nepal, 1963

Photograph by Barry C. Bishop

"Snow-plumed South Summit of Everest challenges climbers 25,000 feet [7620 meters] high on Lhotse's slanting face. Bracing themselves with ice axes, steel boot spikes, and a rope fixed to the mountain, the men pause for breath in the rarefied air. Oxygen here is only two-fifths the density at sea level, and climbers must breathe bottled gas."

—From "Six to the Summit," October 1963, National Geographic magazine