A happy place for all the sarcastic displaced kiwi's of the world.

  This photo of Mt. Everest was taken from the Space Shuttle Atlantis (Mission STS-37) in April of 1991. Fifty four years ago, Kiwi Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, were the first to scale Earth's highest point. I believe they stuck around on the summit for only 15 minutes. These days I think you can't even stay this long due to the continual line of other Everest wannabes waiting patiently behind you.

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