Word: sherpa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earlier discovered some strange pawprints at high altitudes in the snow, Sir Edmund was almost ready to give up the hunt when, according to a letter just received by the expedition's sponsor (Chicago's Field Enterprises Educational Corp.). he happened upon a bearlike skin that his Sherpa guides -who may be con men of the highest-altitude order-swore to be the hide of a large Snowman. Wrote Mountaineer Hillary: ''We regard it as a particularly significant exhibit." Australia's hearty Prime Minister Robert Menzies has often been upbraided and spoofed by Down Under...
Minus his mountaineering equipment, Britain's Sir John Hunt, leader of the expedition in which Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Guide Tenzing climbed Mount Everest in 1955, popped up at a boys' school in Nottinghamshire, was prepared to answer almost all questions except one: "What did Sir Edmund say after conquering Everest?" Brows knit, Sir John at length blurted: "He said, 'We've knocked the bastard...