JACKSON — Not many towns in New Hampshire can lay claim to having two residents who have stood at the top of the world, but Jackson's not like other towns. It has Thom Pollard and Mark Synnott, who both took part in an Everest expedition this spring during one of the craziest climbing seasons the mountain has ever witnessed.


Pollard, who turned 58 on July 1, summited from the southern, Nepalese side in 2016 and his friend, big-wall climber Mark Synnott, 49, recently achieved that feat from the northern, Tibetan (Chinese) side on May 30.

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