It's "one thing to get to the top of a mountain, but it's not really a complete job until you get safely back down to the bottom. I have been the hero of Mount Everest. I'm regarded as such ...

The Hornbein Couloir poses a fantasy ski descent that only two parties have ever attempted. Neither was successful.

Climbers attempting Mount Everest, the world's highest peak ... three tonnes of human excrement between camp one at the bottom of Everest and camp four, towards the summit.