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  Chapter 6

  Copyright 2012 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, used with permission; Stephen Venables; Ed Webster/Mtn. Imagery; Stephen Venables; Andy Bardon Photography; Copyright 2012 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, used with permission; Andy Bardon Photography.

  Chapter 7

  C. Richards Photography; C. Richards Photography; Andy Bardon Photography; Kristoffer Erickson; Courtesy Royal Geographical Society (with IBG); C. Richards Photography; Andy Bardon Photography; Andy Bardon Photography; Andy Bardon Photography; Andy Bardon Photography; Kristoffer Erickson; Kristoffer Erickson; Ralf Dujmovits; Kristoffer Erickson.

  Chapter 8

  Mark Jenkins; David Breashears; Courtesy Royal Geographical Society (with IBG); Matt Propert, NGS; Courtesy Royal Geographical Society (with IBG); Harry Kikstra/ExposedPlanet.com.

  Text credits

  Chapter 2

  “Odell’s Last Glimpse” © 2012 Julie Summers.

  Chapter 3

  “The Push and Pull of Progress” by Kurt Luger and “Preserving Culture by Managing Parks” by Ang Rita Sherpa, reprinted with permission from Triumph on Everest: A Tribute From the Sherpas of Neapal (Nepal: The Himalayan Trust Advisory Board in association with Mandala Book Point, 2003).

  “Gifts from a Goddess” by Apa Sherpa, reprinted from Himalaya: Personal Stories of Grandeur, Challenge, and Hope (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2006), with permission from the American Himalayan Foundation.

  Chapter 4

  “The Name of the Mountain” by Edwin Bernbaum, reprinted with permission from the American Alpine Club News.

  Chapter 5

  “The Conquest of the Summit” by Edmund Hillary, reprinted by permission from National Geographic, July 1954.

  “And Miles to Go” by Thomas Hornbein, reprinted with permission from Everest: The West Ridge (Seattle, Wash.: The Mountaineers Books, 1998).

  “Beside Mallory” by Conrad Anker, reprinted with permission from The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mount Everest by Conrad Anker and David Roberts (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999).

  Chapter 6

  “Overnight on Everest” by Stephen Venables, reprinted from Rock and Ice magazine by permission.

  Chapter 7

  “The Mountain and More” by Emily Harrington, reprinted with permission from the American Alpine Club from Inclined blog, inclined.americanalpineclub.org.

  The Call of Everest

  Conrad Anker

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