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...sure they felt no Zeitgeist in them when they labored up the last snow slope to the summit. They were both very straightforward men. Tenzing was a professional mountaineer from the Sherpa community of the Everest foothills. After several expeditions to the mountain, he certainly wanted to get to the top for vocational reasons, but he also planned to deposit in the highest of all snows some offerings to the divinities that had long made Chomolungma sacred to his people. Hillary was by profession a beekeeper, and he would have been less than human if he had not occasionally thought...
...from everyone 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...
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...
...danger of becoming an extreme sport for the rich, with gaudy adventure-travel stunts such as being guided up the highest mountain on each continent. A New York society woman named Sandy Hill Pittman was on hand to complete this cycle, along with masses of electronic equipment lugged by Sherpas, including a satellite phone with which she intended to file Internet dispatches from Camp Four, at 26,000 ft. Did she deserve to be mocked for her pretensions or admired for her pluck? (Pittman did reach the top, "short-roped" or dragged there by a Sherpa, and got back down...
...survived the storm have the choice of seeing their fate as either a happy accident or a miracle. Fischer's climbers, now led by guide Neal Beidleman, were saved when Beidleman glimpsed the Big Dipper during a storm lull and was able to navigate them into camp. Gau's sherpa managed to wake him and get him down to the high camp, where he could receive fluids intravenously. But the most remarkable revival was that of Weathers, the Dallas doctor. At 9 a.m. on Saturday, fellow climbers left behind his apparently lifeless body; that morning the news was relayed...