On the way back down Mount Everest
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- Date created
- May 2008
- Location
- Nepal
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- This photograph copyright ©2009. All Rights Reserved
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- Journey to the top of the world: Climbing Mount Everest: This slideshow tells the story of a North Carolina adventurer's ascent of Mount Everest in photos, video, and text, including excerpts from his journal. (Page 23)
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Ciprian “Chip” Popoviciu stops on the mountain slope at a place called “the balcony” for a picture after summiting Mount Everest. He wears an oxygen mask to help him breathe. The air is very thin at high altitudes. It is a calm, sunny day so his blue and black down suit is unzipped and he is wearing only liner gloves, not the heavy mitts he wore through the night as he climbed to the summit. Behind him, other peaks of the Himalayan Mountains can be seen.
