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Posted on: January 9, 2013


In 1962, without sponsors, permits or much experience, four renegade climbers slipped across the Nepalese-Tibetan border to attempt the North Ridge of Everest in lightweight style. Fifty years later, historian Maurice Isserman revisits the story of what some call the real "First American Everest Expedition." Read the full article here.

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