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What Section of the Mount Everest Route Do Climbers Love and Loathe? We Asked the Experts.
Veterans of Mount Everest expeditions tell us their favorite, least-favorite, and toughest spots along the route to the summit.

“Tenzing Norgay, born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. On 29 May 1953, he and Edmund Hillary were the first confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, as part of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition. Time named Norgay…”