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
Published: May 27, 2013
A Photo Essay on Mount Everest

Image by : Corbis

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  • A Photo Essay on Mount Everest
  • A Photo Essay on Mount Everest
  • A Photo Essay on Mount Everest
  • A Photo Essay on Mount Everest
  • A Photo Essay on Mount Everest
  • A Photo Essay on Mount Everest
  • A Photo Essay on Mount Everest
  • A Photo Essay on Mount Everest
  • A Photo Essay on Mount Everest
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"