The call of Everest is an irresistible pull for hundreds of climbers every year despite the odds - one in 10 never comes back. Named by the British after Sir George Everest, the former British surveyor general, the 29,029ft mountain is the highest on Earth, and a major tourist attraction in Nepal.
Climbers aged between 15 and 71 have scaled its summit in the years since Edmund Hillary's 1953 triumph.
But it is not quite the virgin territory it was then. Recent visitors have described the mountain as a polluted rubbish dump.
According to the Kathmandu Post: "The trail leading to the summit remains littered with more than 200 tonnes of garbage."
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