The Observer magazine - Celebrating 50 Years On Everest (30 March 2003)

The Observer magazine - Celebrating 50 Years On Everest (30 March 2003)
POOR CONDITION - magazine has been read - PREVIOUS WATER DAMAGE TO TOP THIRD CORNER OF MAGAZINE - A FEW SMALL TEARS AROUND EDGE OF FRONT COVER - MAGAZINE COVER IS VERY BADLY TORN TO FRONT BOTTOM AND ALL AROUND SPINE AND COMPLETELY LOOSE AT BOTTOM STAPLE

The Everest Issue

BECAUSE IT'S THERE - Introducing the special Everest Issue by charting the key dates in climbing the mountain alongside a route map of the summit
2 pages

PEAK PERFORMANCE - Four adventurers reveal all about the high life
7 pages

THE DEATH ZONE - When 23 climbers summited Everest in 1996, it should have been a day of triumph. Instead a freak storm turned the day into a nightmare. We unravel the events which led to eight mountaineers freezing to death
8 page feature

HIGH HOPES - The Sherpas - we meet the men for whom climbing Everest is all in a day's work
6 page feature

REINHOLD MESSNER - (Mountaineer) - "This much I know"
2 pages