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Heil shows how increasingly risky expeditions and unscrupulous outfitters threaten to turn Everest into a deadly circus

and since then

a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit

With plants and animals historically linked to Africa

and it's easy to see why Namibia attracts lovers of the great outdoors

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