Word: norgay
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some heroes took a giant leap for all humankind by journeys that were lonely by definition. The flight of Charles Lindbergh and the climb of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay showed where people can go on the planet if they have the wit and endurance. Their journeys were inward too, as all heroic endeavors are, but few in the century were more so than those undertaken by Anne Frank in her diary of the Holocaust, or Bill Wilson, who pioneered the 12-step approach to self-help that has transformed millions of lives...
...Muhammad Ali, heavyweight boxing champion --The American G.I., a soldier for freedom --Diana, Princess of Wales --Anne Frank, diarist and Holocaust victim --Billy Graham, evangelist --Che Guevara, guerrilla leader --Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay, conquerors of Mount Everest --Helen Keller, champion of the disabled --The Kennedys, dynasty --Bruce Lee, actor and martial-arts star --Charles Lindbergh, transatlantic aviator --Harvey Milk, gay-rights leader --Marilyn Monroe, actress --Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragist --Rosa Parks, civil rights torchbearer --Pele, soccer star --Jackie Robinson, baseball player --Andrei Sakharov, Soviet dissident --Mother Teresa, missionary nun --Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
...Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal became the first human beings to conquer Mount Everest--Chomolungma, to its people--at 29,028 ft. the highest place on earth. By any rational standards, this was no big deal. Aircraft had long before flown over the summit, and within a few decades literally hundreds of other people from many nations would climb Everest too. And what is particularly remarkable, anyway, about getting to the top of a mountain...
...connected to the search. "No less a person than Edmund Hillary said he was willing to accept the possibility that Mallory got there first," says Kluger. "That was a generous statement from the person who would be surrendering his place in the pantheon of explorers." Hillary and sherpa Tenzing Norgay, were the first to successfully reach Everest?s peak in 1953. Team members expressed the hope to return another time to search for Irvine and the camera. Before leaving Mallory, they paid him their last respects. They gathered rocks and buried him, to rest forever in peace in the mountain...
Meanwhile the arguments continue to rage over whether Mallory and Irvine made it all the way, beating New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay by 29 years. "It's an interesting, romantic thought, but until someone shows a clear image of them at the summit, I'm happy to stick with Hillary and Tenzing," says veteran climber David Breashears. As for the 79-year-old Sir Edmund, he isn't losing any sleep over the matter. "Getting to the bottom is an important part too," he told Television New Zealand...