Mount Everest
With co-conquerer of Everest Edmund Hillary dead, and the Chinese controversially including the top of Mt Everest in the Olympic Torch route, as it is carried through occupied Tibet (2009 will be 50 years since the Dalai Lama’s dramatic escape to India), it’s time for at least an armchair exploration of the Everest region.
Be fascinating to hear from you if you have ever tackled the roof of the world,
Tibet’s “Goddess Mother of the Earth”.
0516035 - Hillary and Tensing on return to base camp ©Topham / TopFoto
1105704 - View from Gokyo Ri (Gokyo Peak) showing the summit of Mount Everest (8848m) from the west. ©Jon Mitchell / TopFoto