Feature: Exhibition in Southern California showcases Mount Everest's illustrious history


  • World
  • Saturday, 21 May 2022

by Xinhua writer Tan Jingjing

LOS ANGELES, May 20 (Xinhua) -- From the climbing rope found with the remains of British mountaineer George Mallory, who took part in the first British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s, to one of the first oxygen sets ever employed in high-altitude climbing, an exhibition being held in Bowers Museum in U.S. Southern California takes visitors on an epic journey to Mount Everest.

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