From Everest to Machu Picchu, we can’t get enough of those ‘must-see’ places. It’s time to show some restraintClimbing Everest used to be an even more dangerous pursuit than it is today, requiring huge bravery, endurance and skill. Even then the mountain could kill. A century ago, it claimed the lives of two of Britain’s finest climbers, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine.The world’s highest mountain eventually succumbed to human challenge when, almost three decades later, Edmund Hillary and... Read this story
