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Thus, with laconic drama, the ninth British Everest expedition told of the conquest of earth's highest spire. In reaching the roof of the world simply because it is there, the New Zealander and the Sherpa mountaineer had done what Columbus, Scott and Lindbergh had gloriously done before: asserted that puny man can measure all things earthly...
Northward were the Himalayan pastures, where the gentle Sherpa tribesmen live. The trail crossed giant mountains, crowding the icy torrent of the Dudh Kosi and soaring on the other side to 20,000 ft. Sometimes by day there were rain and sleet; sometimes there were hornets that can drive a man mad. And so, on March 25, they came to Namche Bazar, the chief of the Sherpa towns...
Team No. 2 was Hillary, the beekeeper from Auckland, New Zealand, and Tenzing, the sinewy Asian whom Colonel Hunt named "the greatest Sherpa of them all." They dragged themselves up to 27,900 ft. and there, on a rocky ledge, they spent a gale-swept night in a ragged tent...
...icing is dangerous on a slope of 30°; Lhotse, in many places, is close to vertical. Wilfred Noyce, a Charterhouse schoolmaster, took two days to hack an ice staircase diagonally up to the -col. Camp VI and Camp VII were established on the face; finally, Noyce and a Sherpa gang reached the col and stood in a clear sky on the threshold of Everest. Here they made Camp VIII...
...below zero and the air was thin enough to set the blood aboil as a New Zealand beekeeper -mountaineer named E. P. Hillary and an experienced Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norkey, struggled out of Camp 8 towards Everest's naked summit (29,002 ft.). Twice their climbing companions had been driven back by blizzards of ice, as had all men who tried before them. This time the mountain yielded...