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Tall Order: Mount Everest - three times as high as the Monterey Bay marine canyon is deep - looms to the left behind Field.

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A local doctor takes on Mount Everest during its second deadliest season ever.

On the way up Mount Everest, 29,029 feet into the remote reaches of human survivability, s*** happens. Life-and-death dramas ranging from avalanche to embolism become companions – and famously so in a year like 2012, ...

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