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Everest: Summit of Achievement The Royal Geographic Society Simon & Schuster May 2003 252 pp. ISBN 0743243862 $35.00
On 29 May 1953, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay stood atop the highest mountain in the world, where no one had ever stood before. This magnificent volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of their historic climb and chronicles the history of Everest exploration from the early years of the twentieth century to the present. It is the first and only book on...