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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

March 12, 2010
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