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The sun creeping up at around 5:15am (by now we'd already been climbing for nearly 8 hours in the dark)
Some of the first views of the landscape around us
The sun hitting some of the nearby peaks
The shadow of Mt Everest on the clouds below
The Summit Ridge (taken from the South Summit)
Surrounding mountains
Looking towards the Tibetan mountains
The final part of the climb showing Hilary's Step
A climber on top of Hilary's Step
The surrounding view
It was amazing to think that we'd been looking up at many of these peaks for so long and now we were so far above them
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The final part of the summit ridge
Looking back towards the South Summit
From the summit looking down toward Tibet - you can see the track used by climbers from the North side
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Looking back down the summit ridge - the people in the distance are Mingma and Fiona
Looking down from the South Summit to the South Col - camp 4 is just near the small slightly darker circle down there
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Fiona on the summit of Mount Everest - surrounded by prayer flags that the Sherpas often bring up
And again, Fiona on the summit - this time with the mask off
Back down in basecamp after being served a special cake to celebrate the climb
It was truly amazing how Pemba cooked this in the most basic of kitchens
Paul - just arrived on the summit of Mount Everest
Paul - on the summit of Mount Everest! Mask off this time!
Paul standing on the summit of Mount Everest
Fiona meeting Paul at the bottom of the icefall
The Everest Summiters' cake waiting for Paul at basecamp
Finally, Everest is done for Paul - what a journey!
Many of these photographs are from Julie Smith who summited on the same day we were climbing (our camera batteries froze so we only got the two photos of Fiona on the summit).