Team of climbers on Everest
Precarious camping on east face of Everest
Campsite on Everest
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climb Mount Everest
1963 Everest expedition
Climbers cross a crevasse on Everest
Reinhold Messner's tent on Everest
Team of Everest Climbers, 1963Climbers and porters on a 1963 American expedition set off in their bid to summit Mount Everest. The team used 900 porters to carry 27 tons of supplies to base camp. In the end six team members reached the summit with little more than their backpacks.
Photograph by Barry Bishop, National Geographic

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