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English: Diagram of climbing routes on Mount Everest's Southwest Face up to including the successful ascent in 1975. Based on several diagrams in Bonington, Chris (1976). Everest the hard way. London: Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 0340208333. and Unsworth, Walt (2000). Everest, The Mountaineering History, page 444. Seattle, WA, USA: Mountaineers ...
English: Diagram of climbing routes on Mount Everest's Southwest Face before the ascent in 1975. Based on several diagrams in Bonington, Chris (1976). Everest the hard way. London: Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 0340208333. and Unsworth, Walt (1981). Everest, The Mountaineering History, page 444. Seattle, WA, USA: Mountaineers Books. ISBN 0-7139-1108-5
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The members of the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, in a colorized photograph. Back row, left to right: Andrew Irvine, George Mallory, John de Vars Hazard, Noel E. Odell and expedition ...
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English: Diagram of climbing route on Mount Everest's Southwest Face in 1975. Based on several diagrams in Bonington, Chris (1976). Everest the hard way, page 92. London: Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 0340208333. and Unsworth, Walt (1981). Everest, The Mountaineering History, page 444. Seattle, WA, USA: Mountaineers Books. ISBN 0-7139-1108-5
If you measure altitude above mean sea level, then the 29,032-foot (8,849-meter) Mount Everest, which straddles the border between Tibet and Nepal, is clearly the world’s highest.
North face of Mt. Everest showing routes and important points: the red line shows the Great Couloir or Norton Couloir; in 1924 Norton crossed the north face between the light blue and the green lines; (b) marks the highest point on west face of the couloir, up to which Norton ascended in 1924;