'Perfect weather for the job,' George Mallory wrote on June 7 1924, the day before he and a young Oxford undergraduate called Andrew Irvine left for the summit of Everest.
I was on top of the world - the summit of Everest. I thought there would be a sense of relief. Instead, I felt numb. I wondered how I got there. A 51-year-old from north London who is the most unlikely athlete.
A century ago, British surveyors, measuringthe towering Himalayas on the Nepal-Tibet border, found the world’shighest mountain: 29,141 feet. Tibetan natives called it Chomolungma,meaning “Goddess Mother…
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Led by the son of the Sherpa who accompanied Edmund Hillary to the summit in 1953, the author makes a grueling 8-day trek to the iconic mountain's Base Camp.