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Trekking in Nepal and Sikkim ...

Interview with David Breashears and Tony Kahn of The WORLD May 13, 1997 Hear the interview via RealAudio at 14.4 | 28.8 | ISDN Get the RealAudio software TK: To begin with David, can you tell us the latest about the fate of these climbers. We've heard that possibly as many as nine have died. Do you have any information DB: We have a fair amount of information because we have a radio link with ...

On top of the world: Don George profiles Sir Edmund Hillary, mountain climber, world explorer and Himalayan humanitarian extraordinaire. ...

Tenzing Norgay about his moment on the summit of the world, his thoughts and impressions.

Tiger of the Snows: Tenzing Norgay By Liesl Clark It has been a long road...From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax. -- Tenzing Norgay When Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest in 1953 with New Zealander Edmund Hillary, he had no idea how his life would change. From that moment ...

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First Without Oxygen I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits. Reinhold Messner, Everest Climbing Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, was a challenge that eluded scores of great mountaineers until 1953, when Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay first reached its summit. Over the next three decades, more firsts followed, including the ...

The Ester-C Everest Challenge Final Report by Tom Whittaker June 30th 1998 Assaulted by the elements, in rarefied air, mountaineers do battle with the giants of geography. In wind and snow, on rock and ice they toil upwards. It has no intrinsic purpose, it is of no earthly good. There is no one to watch, no adoring public, no accolades. Financially it is often ruinous. Why then do we do it The ...

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