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...Modest Mountaineers As reported in our May 29 issue, Mount Everest is being scaled by some surprising climbers, including a teenage boy and a double amputee. The June 14, 1999, TIME 100 profile of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay related that the mountain's first conquerors in 1953 were also unlikely heroes...
...Italy before going off to study English at Oxford. He married Elizabeth Tuckniss, daughter of a colonial tea planter, and talked his way into a reporting job at London's Times newspaper. Morris famously broke the news of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's historic 1953 ascent of Mount Everest (the reporter himself made it two-thirds of the way up). After publishing seven books - on the U.S., the Middle East, Africa and Venice, the last a longtime favorite destination of his - Morris left daily journalism for full-time book writing...
...top—instead, he saved a man’s life. It was 7 a.m. on the morning of May 26, and Osborne and his team had been climbing for over seven hours since the night before. They were in their tenth week on Mount Everest, and it was their third attempt at reaching the summit. With the summit close at hand, the team saw a man shivering uncontrollably from the bitter cold and sitting three feet from a 10,000 foot precipice. The man, delusional from lack of oxygen, was pulling off his protective clothing. He was wearing...
...expedition there was no way that you would have left a man under a rock to die." SIR EDMUND HILLARY, the first man to climb Mount Everest in 1953, on the death of British mountaineer David Sharp, who froze just below Everest's summit last week as several other climbers passed by without trying to save...
HIGH HOPES Pneumonia ended Ali Bushnaq's quest to be the first Palestinian up the mountain. But his teammates on the Everest Peace Project, including two Israelis, made...