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Ed Hillary. But Hillary, too, had proved his worth, seeming to grow stronger as the expedition progressed. Band notes that Hillary had also realized what a powerful team he and Tenzing would make. Hillary and Tenzing were the logical second party for the summit. But this was not determined at the outset, only during the course of the expedition as it evolved. With an earlier start from a higher camp than Bourdillon and Evans's, Tenzing and Hillary reached the South Summit by 9 a.
But the difficulties were far from over. After the South Summit, the ridge takes a slight dip before rising abruptly in a rocky spur some 40 feet 12 meters high just before the true summit. Scraping at the snow with his ax, Hillary chimneyed between the rock pillar and an adjacent ridge of ice to surmount this daunting obstacle, later to be known as the Hillary Step.
The pair reached the highest point on Earth at a. The men shook hands, as Hillary later wrote, "in good Anglo-Saxon fashion," but then Tenzing clasped his partner in his arms and pounded him on the back. The pair spent only 15 minutes on top. As the two men made their way back down, the first climber they met was teammate George Lowe, also a New Zealander. Hillary's legendary greeting: "Well, George, we knocked the bastard off! Their fame was spreading even as Hillary and Tenzing left the mountain.
We felt quite uncomfortable with this at the time. John Hunt, Tenzing, and I had a little meeting. We agreed not to tell who stepped on the summit first. Often the one who puts more into the climb steps back and lets his partner stand on top first. Neither man anticipated how much, in the wake of their success, the appeal of that patch of snow more than five miles in the sky would grow.
All rights reserved. Excerpted From "50 Years on Everest," by Contributing Editor David Roberts, National Geographic Adventure, April By today's standards, the British expedition, under the military-style leadership of Sir John Hunt, was massive in the extreme, but in an oddly bottom-heavy way: porters, 20 Sherpas, and tons of supplies to support a vanguard of only ten climbers. Share Tweet Email. Read This Next Wild parakeets have taken a liking to London.
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