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THE BROAD VIEW
Because it is there
The assault on Mount Everest has set off a backlash as tourist zones reclaim their pride and privacy.
Over 4,800 people have climbed Mount Everest, a staggering number given the risks involved and the amount of time it took for the first human being to make that successful ascent. Almost 300 have died.
PHOTO: AFP
ON May 29, 1953 when Edmund Hillary (a reclusive Auckland bee-keeper) and his intrepid Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay emerged above the clouds to finally ruffle Mount Everest's 29,029-foot killer peak, it was the culmination of decades of romantic endeavour at the lung-bursting limits of human...
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