Khumbu Climbing Center: In the Footsteps of Hillary and Norgay

"It really started with the 1999 Mallory/Irvine Everest Expedition," American climber Conrad Anker recalls, "because on that trip, I became friends with a number of our Sherpa staff who were from the village of Phortse, in the Khumbu Valley." That year, when Anker discovered the body of George Mallory, which had been lost on Everest since 1924, he added his name to the list of mountaineering greats forever linked with the history of the mountain.