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TIL of Tim Macartney-Snape an Australian who was technically the first person to climb all of Everest. He started with a swim in the Bay of Bengal over 700 miles away, ran 1.5 marathons in 5 days to reach a checkpoint crossing, and 29,031ft in elevation gain later he summited Everest.

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