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Mt. Everest

A Joke In Extremely Poor Taste: Why do they call it Mt. Everest? Because hundreds of people who tried to climb it will ever rest there.

In 1924, James Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew Irvine made a bid for for the summit of Everest. Neither man returned to tell us they succeeded.

Yet, Mallory was last seen climbing not to far from the summit. Mallory was among the first to have the great boon of carried Oxygen. (No one would summit without oxygen until 19XX.) Speculation has since existed that Mallory was actually

Recently, a team found the body of Mallory, which has been preserved in the cold temperatures (crying on the heights on Everest will freeze your eyelids shut) for three quarters of a century, 800 feet from the summit. Since most fatatlities that take place from the South Col (the last camp ... from there climbers have to make round trips) to the Summit happen on the return to South Col, this leads to some doubt as to who actually first summited the highest mountain in the world. A team of explorers is currently looking for Mallory's camera, which would likely tell us for sure. However, even if it is verified that Mallory was the first to summit Everest, the team of Ed Hillary & Tenzing Norgay, who summited in 1956, would still be the first to summit and survive, which is the happier honor.

The busy season on Everest is the last weeks of April and the first weeks of May. (Indeed, around May 8th through 12th are when most summit attempts are made.) You can find out the most imediate news from Everest at Everest News.

In 1996, 11 deaths occured on Everest, the greatest number of deaths in one season. Nine of those death occured near the summit on May 11-12, during a summit bid by two expeditions led by two of the most expirienced climbers, Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, of paying customers without great climbing experience.

For the best account available online go to Outside Magazine Online and run a search with the word "everest". Outside Magazine corespondent Jon Krakauer was a member of Hall's group. He later wrote the bestselling book Into Thin Air about the expirience. A large collection of Everest links of various qualities are available at Mt. Everest.com. You may have to fish around for the best material.