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...Sitting around in a big base camp and knocking back cans of beer--I don't particularly regard as mountaineering." SIR EDMUND HILLARY, who with his partner, Tenzing Norgay, 50 years ago was the first climber to reach the top of Mount Everest, on the upsurge in amateur climbers since then...
...Nepalese became the first people to stand on the top of the world: the summit of Mount Everest. In modern times, we're not always lucky in our heroes, perhaps because, having elevated skepticism to a virtue, we don't allow ourselves to be. But by all accounts, Edmund Hillary, who is still alive, and Tenzing Norgay, who died in 1986, were the real deal. Hillary was a beekeeper; Tenzing, in effect, a professional climber from the Sherpa community in the Himalayan foothills. The two men, wrote Jan Morris in TIME three years ago - and as a young journalist...
...others--Roosevelt himself, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton (the jury is still out on George W. Bush)--confront a historian with odd opacities of character: neuroses, compulsions, contradictions or (in the cases of Roosevelt and Reagan) an impenetrable geniality. Reagan's biographer Edmund Morris concluded that the man's apparent depthlessness was itself an enigma, a kind of blank, like the whiteness of the whale...
...years after I went blind at the age of 13, I sent away for a Braille book about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's ascent of Mount Everest. As I read, I imagined with fear and delight the two pioneers standing only 60 meters below the summit at the base of a 12-meter vertical rock face, later named the Hillary Step, desperately hoping it could be scaled. In 1953, so much of modern mountaineering was still to be discovered. Archaic clothing and tents made Everest's frigid temperatures lethal. Oxygen bottles were three times heavier than today's. Deadly...
...great teacher,” said Edmund J. Yunis, a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School...