How Mount Everest helped Britain's post-war bid to burnish global
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It was a matter of ‘national importance’ to the British government that men they sponsored be the first to conquer the mountain.
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How Mount Everest helped Britain's post-war bid to burnish global
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How the climb up Mount Everest has changed in 70 years - The Hindu
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Everest faces the challenge of rising temperatures and more climbers
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Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 , Howard-Bury, Leigh
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Is climbing Everest today as 'awful' as Chris Bonington says
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The Epic of Everest (1924; UK; John Noel) – The Realm of Silence
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When is the best time to climb Island Peak in Nepal? - Quora
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Everest faces the challenge of rising temperatures and more climbers
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Reinhold Messner: the man who left his life on the mountain
70 years after the first ascent of Everest, the impact of mass