Mt. Everest, Part I: The Early Years

Ed Webster and Katie Ives

Posted on: April 15, 2009


It is the icon of all mountains, but years of exploitation have impugned the honor of Everest. Ed Webster, with Katie Ives, writes an honest mountain of it, while Wade Davis, Mike Westmacott, Wang Fuzhou and Tom Hornbein weigh in on the early innocence of the Goddess Mother of Earth.

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