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The Top of the
World, Mt. Everest (8848m.) is the highest mountain in the
world. Even though, it has been conquered many times by
thousands of climbers in this fifty three years since
the first ever conquest made by Sir E. Hillary & Tenzing
Norgay in 1953.However, Everest is still as mysterious,
fascinating and magnificent as ever and which equally attracts
the craze of the mountaineers. Being situated incredibly
right in the boundary of Nepal and Tibet, this mountain
has many names: Chomolungma, Sagarmatha, Qomolungma or Mt.
Everest.Perhaps there are many colorful stories about the
early attempts on Everest as the one involving Captain J.
Noel and his copartners and may be some had not been recorded
in the history. But after 1953, many extraordinary world
records set by brave climbers from different countries and
this tradition will certainly remain until men exist in
this world.Although there are a dozen of routes on Mt. Everest
we follow the classical route, traditionally the most reliable
way to the summit
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