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The dangerous road to Mount Everest Hundreds of climbers attempt to scale the world’s highest mountain every year, a feat that comes with inherent dangers.
Aug. 26, 2000
The southern face of Mount Everest, known locally as Sagarmatha, soars above the monsoon clouds at the border of Nepal and Tibet.
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Japanese mountain climber Katsusuke Yanagisawa, 71, foreground, climbs toward the summit of Mount Everest.
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Mountaineers walk past the Hillary Step while pushing for the summit of Mount Everest as they climb the south face from Nepal. In 2009, a group of top Nepalese climbers planned a high-risk expedition to clean up Everest, saying decades of mountaineering have taken their toll on the world's highest peak.
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May 11, 2011
Nepalese soldiers carry the body of 82-year-old former Nepalese Foreign Minister Shailendra Kumar Upadhyay, who died on the slopes of Mount Everest while attempting to become the oldest person to climb the world's highest mountain, in Katmandu, Nepal. Upadhyay was returning from the first camp set on the slopes of Everest back down to the base camp when he collapsed. He was trying to break the record set by a Nepalese climber who scaled the 8,850-meter peak at the age of 76.
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May 2006
"Green Boots," an Indian climber, died in a small rock alcove on Mount Everest in 1996. In May, British climber David Sharp collapsed in this same alcove, where more than three dozen climbers passed him on their way to and from the summit.
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May 16, 2010
A corpse of a mountaineer being retrieved by unseen Nepalese sherpas during the clean-up expedition at Mount Everest. Led by seven-time summiteer Namgyal Sherpa, the team braved thin air and below-freezing temperatures to clear around two metric tons of rubbish left behind by mountaineers, that included empty oxygen cylinders and corpses.
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May 17, 2010
Since 1953, there have been roughly 300 deaths on Everest. Many bodies have been brought down, but those above 8,000 meters have generally been left to the elements — their bodies preserved by the freezing temperatures.
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May 17, 2006
Japanese mountaineer Takao Arayama, 70, in blue, scales Mount Everest.
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May 19, 2005
Members of a Mount Everest expedition team inch their way up a slope of the mountain.
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May 24, 2003
A Nepalese Army helicopter evacuates Nepalese porter Kancha Noora from Everest Base Camp. Noora, accompanying the South Korean expedition to Mount Everest, had appendicitis while in the camp and required medical evacuation.
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May 16, 2007
Apa Sherpa, 46, left, and Lhakpa Sherpa display the Nepalese flag after scaling Mount Everest summit. Apa was leading a team calling themselves the "Super Sherpas Expedition" on a charity climb to raise education funds for children of the Nepalese mountain guides.
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May 17, 2009
Nepalese mountaineer Pemba Dorje Sherpa pauses on his way to Mount Everest. Earlier, bad weather conditions had forced three Nepalese Sherpa brothers to give up their plans to set a new world record by spending 24 hours in the "death zone" on top of Mount Everest.
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May 19, 2009
Pemba Dorje Sherpa, 30, and his two younger brothers reached the summit on May 19, but were forced down after only two hours.
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May 19, 2009
Mountaineers pause at the Hillary Step while pushing for the summit of Everest as they climb the south face from Nepal.
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1909
This photo from 1909 shows British mountain climber George Mallory, who died while scaling Mount Everest in 1924, on the Moine ridge of the Aiguille Verte mountain in France. Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine led a 1924 British expedition assault on Everest and failed to return. Speculation continues that they may have been the first to reach the highest point on the planet.
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June 26, 1953
Tensing Norgey of Nepal and Edmund P. Hillary of New Zealand are shown here in the kit they wore when conquering Mount Everest on May 29, 1953. The duo became first people to ever conquer the highest mountain in the world.
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May 15, 2003
An aerial photograph shows Everest Base Camp, a large tent city full of climbers at 18,000 feet, which sits at the foot of Mount Everest on the Nepal-Tibet border.
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May 22, 2003
Tents glow in the twilight as clouds cover Everest Base Camp in Nepal. Many teams often wait or reschedule their summit attempt due to bad weather.
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May 17, 2009
A general view from Everest Base Camp in Nepal.
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Sept. 30, 2010
Mount Everest, as seen from a window during a flight from Bangkok to Paro, Bhutan.
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