The Third PoleVeteran climber Mark Synnott never planned on climbing Mount Everest, but a hundred year mystery lured him into an expedition and an awesome history of passionate adventure, chilling tragedy, and human aspiration unfolded. On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and 'Sandy' Irvine set out to stand on the roof of the world, where no one had stood before. They were last seen eight hundred feet shy of Everest's summit. A century later, we still don't know

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and Shirley Jackson is outwitted by a wily Santa Claus at the bank

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grounded in reason and humanity

Andrew Blum takes us on a global journey to explain this awe-inspiring feat - from satellites circling the Earth

often undersung places that link our nation

Can Apollo find his godly form again