The Ascent of EverestExpedition leader John Hunt's account of the first ascent of Mount Everest's summit in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. |
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Page 12 - There is no height, no depth that the spirit of man, guided by a higher Spirit, cannot attain.