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I have finally returned home after 2 1/2 months of trekking and climbing in Nepal and Tibet. The result was excellent— the team and I summitted Everest on May 23rd at 3:30 AM Nepali time.
The fundraising has gone well, but still we are short of our target. I wanted to let you all know that [...]

It seemed too quick. We were at the exit cracks before 8:00 Chinese time, and within 15 minutes we had reached the first tents of the high camp. I was elated but exhausted. I grabbed the radio and said, “North Col, North Col, Alex this is Dickey, over.”
After a few minutes, the response came back, [...]

This is the recount of the summit day. I apologize as there are descriptions of corpses and some foul language here. I hope that you will understand that it is my intention to recount what was going through my mind at the time, and in no way whatsoever do I mean to disrespect those that [...]

Part of every Everest expedition involves waiting. 60+ days of expedition usually yields 20 days of movement on the mountain. Partly because of weather, partly because of needed rest at altitude and partly because of hangovers, people stay where they are on the mountain for a day or two.
The acclimatization period is over. The team [...]

As they toiled up the final snowfield to the summit, Mallory was afraid of an anticlimax, but then he was suffused with an uplifting awareness that even this most arduous stretch was part of the whole experience. ‘The dream stretched to the very end.’ Once again Mallory had invoked the dream to describe his aims [...]