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When a reporter asked George Mallory, one of the first mountaineers to attempt Mt. Everest, why he wanted to climb to the highest point in the world, he famously responded: “Because it’s there.” You’re not George Mallory, but do you ever feel like you’re...

Few people know that it is only in the last 100 years that anyone, sherpas included, would have considered climbing Mount Everest. By local families around the base of Mount Everest, it was considered a place where evil spirits dwelled. A trek up “the...