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Photos of the day, May 24, 2011
In this handout photograph released by Neal Beidleman on May 24, 2011, unidentified mountaineers walk past the Hillary Step while pushing for the summit of Everest on May 20, 2011. A U.S. survivor of the Mount Everest disaster chronicled in the best-selling book, Into Thin Air, Beidleman conquered the peak for a second time to lay the ghosts of the 1996 tragedy to rest. Beidleman, 51, had guided a group to the summit of the world’s highest mountain and was on his way down when a huge storm blew in on May 10, 1996, catching two teams climbing high on the mountain. (Neal Beidleman/AFP/Getty Images)