China's Everest obsession: How tourism and climate change are transforming the mountain

"To the discerning eye, other mountains are visible—giants between 23,000 and 26,000 feet high. Not one of their slenderer heads even reaches their chief's shoulder. Beside Everest they escape notice, such is the preeminence of the greatest," George Mallory, 1922.

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"To the discerning eye, other mountains are visible—giants between 23,000 and 26,000 feet high. Not one of their slenderer heads even reaches their chief's shoulder. Beside Everest they escape notice, such is the preeminence of the greatest," George Mallory, 1922.