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Mount Everest in CloudsUpon seeing Mount Everest clearly for the first time in 1921 after weeks of travel, George Leigh Mallory wrote, "It was a prodigious white fang, an excrescence from the jaw of the world. We saw Mount Everest."
Photograph by Jimmy Chin

Mount Everest

See photos of Mount Everest, as selected by National Geographic editors.

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