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...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 in the Everest party, Morris had known them both - were "cheerful and courageous...
...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...
...intimacy still matters; that a chance collision of two individuals can make a difference in how millions of the rest of us are enfranchised, enriched, entertained. John and Paul made music. Billie Jean and Bobby made sport. Fred and Ginger made love on their feet. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made conquest seem an act of comradeship. Read on, and recall...
...PETER HILLARY AND TASHI TENZING Son of Sir Edmund Hillary and grandson of Tenzing Norgay...
PETER HILLARY AND TASHI TENZING Son of Sir Edmund Hillary and grandson of Tenzing Norgay The descendants of the pair first to summit Everest, in 1953, hope to do the same next month. Hillary and Tenzing--both have reached the top before--will climb separately and meet at the peak...