A Photo Essay on Mount Everest

Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics, and others with a shaky hold on reality

May 27, 2013, 05:47 IST1 min

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A view of the team that was part of a snowboarding expedition at Advanced Base Camp III

Image by Getty Images

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In 2001, American Erik Weihenmayer (centre), blind since the age of 13, became the first blind person to scale Everest. He had to rely on his teammates who would shout out instructions and warnings to help him make his way up

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Tom Whittaker was the first disabled person—his right foot was amputated after an accident—to climb to Everest's summit. He described his ascent as a "climb of imagination, technology and human spirit"

Image by Corbis

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Tenzing Norgay on the summit of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953 ( Photographs courtesyRoli Books, from the new book, Incredible Ascents to Everest by Sumathi Nagrath)

Image by Royal Geographical Society