Throughout the month of June, 2000, this Web site reported from a medical station at 14, 200 feet where doctors and volunteers tend to sick and injured climbers.
The public television program NOVA features information about the 1999 expedition to find George Mallory as well as details on surviving Everest, the mountain's history, and climbing routes.
Counterpart to the TV special, Dan O'Brien explains the attraction and meaning of falconry today, more than 4000 years after it began in China. Classroom activities.