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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL

1999-06-03T00:00:00

Why climb Everest? Even George Mallory could only suggest, 'Because it is there.' The Everest Extreme Expedition has a better reason: it says the mountain presents 'a unique laboratory setting', offering 'new insights on the human body and its implications for other environments or disease states'.

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