From here, climbers have a stupendous view of the upper 8,000 feet of Everest—the first glimpse ... point is covered with an assortment of prayer flags, remnants of surveying equipment and ...

I returned to Everest the following year ... with its array of survey prisms and prayer flags. The sun is low, the sky an unearthly blue; it's the hour of golden light. He's taken his oxygen ...