1953 saw the successful ascent of the world's tallest mountain by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing.
But supposing Mount Everest didn't stop there, but went up and up for ever, or at least into effective space.
People would still be challenged to climb it. With modern equipment they could have got higher I'm sure - but how high?
Conversley as it is obviously impossible to climb into space even today, maybe Hillary and Tensing would not have felt sufficiently motivated to make the climb to 29000 feet then, as it would only be, say, 5% to the top. So perhaps the record would have actually been LESS than its current height.
2007-03-07
09:23:08
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