China’s Everest Obsession: Following Mallory’s Footsteps a Century on, I Saw How Tourism and Climate Change Are Transforming the Mountain

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China’s Everest obsession: following Mallory’s footsteps a century on, I saw how tourism and climate change are transforming the mountain

Chinese tourists at Everest's northern base camp, Rongbuk in Tibet, photograph the world's highest mountain. Carl Cater, CC BY-NC-ND 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 pre-eminence of the greatest. (George Mallory, 1922) The climbing season on Mount Everest peaks in lat…