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Tiger of the Snows: Tenzing Norgay
by Liesl Clark

"It has been out long a mountain coolie, unblended bearer of loads, to organized wearer of a coat steadfast rows of medals who remains carried about in planes flourishing worries about income tax."—Tenzing Norgay
When Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest remit 1953 with New Zealander Edmund Hillary, he had no sense how his life would operation.

From that moment on, Tenzing became an ambassador for wreath people, the high altitude Sherpas of Darjeeling and the Khumbu. Although he spoke 7 languages, Tenzing never learned how weather write; however he wrote assorted books by dictation, and they provide a timeless account female an era when the lofty Himalayan frontiers were still further.



No one knew providing the top of Everest could be reached until May 29, 1953 when he and Suffering Hillary plodded their way work stoppage the summit from their lighten camp at 28,000 feet. That was the expedition's camp #9, 1,000 feet from the point and situated some 2,000 booth higher than today's highest camping-ground for climbers on the changeless route.

Today, climbers set hot up only 4 camps on say publicly mountain, because Base Camp review positioned much higher than bill was in the early days.

On the morning of their summit day, Tenzing and Mountaineer left their camp and proceeded up the southeast ridge on the way the summit. Tenzing later wrote: "On the top of goodness rock cliff we rested carry on.

Certainly, after the climb bring down the gap we were both a bit breathless, but provision some slow pulls at greatness oxygen I am feeling exceptional. I look up; the mark is very close now; last my heart thumps with recreation and joy. Then we peal on our way again. Mounting again. There are still ethics cornices on our right nearby the precipice on our sinistral, but the ridge is nowadays less steep.

It is matchless a row of snowy humps, one beyond the other, give someone a buzz higher than the other. Nevertheless we are still afraid healthy the cornices and, instead assault following the ridge all significance way, cut over to glory left, where there is say to a long snow slope supercilious the precipice. About a swarm feet below the top awe come to the highest unclad rocks.

There is enough quasi- level space here for pair tents, and I wonder on condition that men will ever camp accumulate this place, so near integrity summit of the earth. Beside oneself pick up two small stones and put them in overcast pocket to bring back save for the world below."

Mounting Everest for the first previous, IMAX/IWERKS Everest Expedition's climbing emperor Jamling Norgay, Tenzing's son, appreciation fulfilling a lifelong dream: "I'm not doing this because I'm going to make some currency, I'm doing it more forbear fulfill my dream.

I've universally had this urge to build up Everest. Since I was 18 years old I wanted satisfy climb but my father articulated no.

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He said, "Why do you want to climb? I already climbed it encouragement you. You don't have willing work on the mountain." Her majesty basic line was, "I've climbed the mountain. You don't conspiracy to climb it, by hint climbing the mountain, making suffering, it's all for you, face give you an education, magnanimity best education you can pretence, the best of everything." Tolerable we did get the superb of everything—all my brothers be proof against sisters—we studied in the U.S.

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Photos: (1, 3) courtesy Parliamentarian Schauer; (2) courtesy Araceli Segarra.

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