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Matt Roper

Bravery, triumph and more than 300 deaths - 70 years of climbing Mount Everest

It was known as the Third Pole - and after a Norwegian beat

Captain Scott

to the South Pole, and American Robert Peary laid claim to the North Pole, the race was on to reach the top of Mount Everest, the highest mountain on earth.

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