Word: norkay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly before a Russian dog became the highest form of animal life (see SCIENCE), Sherpa Guide Tensing Norkay, co-conqueror of Mount Everest, trotted out one of a Tibetan breed that formerly contended for the altitude mark. Raised in the high Himalayas, Tensing's homebred personal pet, a Lhasa Apso, was a notable attraction at a London kennel club show...
...connoisseur with a palate as refined as that of the most finicky Western vinophile. There is a weatherbeaten Malayan old man of the sea who knows the language of the fish (sharks say "snnnnnng KWAH"). And there is-in perhaps the most haunting portrait of all-modest, bewildered Tenzing Norkay, conqueror of Mount Everest, now half-man and half-God by Asian standards. In his Darjeeling home, he is badgered by reporters, featherbedded with relatives, envied and slandered by the poorer fellow Sherpas. Says he: "I thought if I climbed Everest whole world very good. I never thought like this...
When Edmond Hillary and Tensing Norkay Conquered Everest as a Coronation present for Queen Elizabeth, they gave the rest of the world an added gift in the form of a dramatic and well-organized Technicolor documentary...
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