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Aug 06, 2010

Out of Frame: The Wildest Dream

“Because it’s there,” is the iconic, oft-quoted, and possibly apocryphal answer given by George Mallory when asked why on Earth he’d want to try to get to the top of the 29,029-foot-tall Mount Everest.

 
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