We tend to focus on the summit as the sole barometer of success - on mountains and in life - but come to find the top of the mountain is just a small part of the journey.

Visit Mount Everest and the surrounding peaks and valleys virtually with this interactive, 5.5 gigabyte panorama by Jake Norton.

Lessons from Everest - and life - about hope, fear, challenges, and how to manage it all as we approach the new year.

Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves. - Dag Hammarskjöld