Mount Everest is Earth's tallest mountain - towering 5.5 miles (8.85 km) above sea level - and is actually still growing. While it and the rest of the Himalayas are continuing an inexorable uplift ...
"Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills," the reference book first published in 1960, has sold over 1 million copies worldwide. It's the flagship publication of Seattle's Mountaineers Books, which ...