Tents at Rongbuk base camp

By Courtesy of Lee Meyers

May 13, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CDT

Tents fill the Rongbuk base camp at 17,000 feet. The tents act as homes for three months of the expedition when climbers are not too high on the mountain to use them.

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