Mount Everest's peak in morning light
Mount Everest base camp
A view straight down into a Mount Everest crevasse
A Sherpa crossing the Khumbu Icefall
Man climbing a glacier ladder on Everest
Young Sherpa girl herding yaks
Stone memorial on Mount Everest
Climber crossing Khumbu Icefall on ladder
Nepalese lama conducts religious ceremony
Everest climber Heidi Howkins in her tent
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Mount Everest in the MorningHistorian Walt Unsworth once said, "Had Mount Everest been climbed at the first attempt, the achievement would have been hailed as notable and then quickly forgotten. It was, ironically, repeated failures which gave the mountain real stature."
Photograph by Bobby Model

Climbing Mount Everest

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