on an expedition to fix ropes at the start of the new climbing season that will see about 600 people scale the world s highest peak. i ve been reflecting on this with rebecca stephens. she s the first british woman to have scaled the heights of everest, in 1993. i recall wanting to lie on a beach for a very long time after i climbed it, and actually i ve been back to the mountain a couple of times trekking around it and looked up and never quite found the ambition to do it a second time, so i m full of admiration for anybody who does it more than once. and 26 times is extraordinary. but i think what i really wanted to say that seems to me most important is we have shifted in a very positive way. here we are for the first time that i can recall in recent years really celebrating the achievement of a sherpa. and it seems forever we have been talking about the first person from this country or that country, without recognition of the sherpas, who all of us recognise we couldn t climb this
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