All the way to the top.

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In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to scale Mount Everest, the world's highest peak. Hillary died this month in New Zealand at age 88. Why did the artist write "Welcome back!"?

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Title Annotation:	CARTOON OF THE WEEK
Author:	McCoy, Gary
Publication:	Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
Article Type:	Cartoon
Date:	Jan 28, 2008
Words:	38
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