After a few more steps and there was nothing above us but the sky, had conquered the Everest, "he wrote in his memoirs Sir Edmund Hillary to describe that May 29, 1953, when he and his companion, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of the world to eight thousand meters above sea level. Returning to base camp after his first statement feat was simply "We knocked the bastard."
Ed, as he liked to be called, died at age 88. Was only 15 minutes on top and none of the pictures taken that day to bear witness to the event is Hillary, Tenzing did not know they use a camera. But those fifteen minutes, accompanied by a lifetime later, in an interview, this simple but stubborn man recognized totally amazed by the fuss that had caused his adventure in the world had just climbed a mountain, "he would say. Always humble and modest mountaineer declaring a very ordinary New Zealander, maybe not too bright, but determined and practical.
of restless feet, the adventures of Edmund Hillary on Everest did not finish. In 1958 he led an expedition to the South Pole, almost Half a century after the legendary race between Amundsen and Scott, using a route through an uncharted landscape. It also conducted an expedition in the Himalayas to try to find the snowman or Yeti. In 1977 in a personal journey of looking after the death of his wife Hillary traveled the Ganges River in India from its source to its mouth. In 1985 he flew to the North Pole with the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong.
His interest and stubbornness did not stay in the adventure and exploration. From his famous ascent in 1953 dedicated his life to helping Serpas the Khumbu region. "I think of all the things I've done, have more exciting been many of them there is no doubt in my mind that the most valuable of all was the establishment of schools and hospitals as well as rebuilding the monasteries in the mountains. Since
down the mountain in 1953, Hillary and Tenzing were harassed by the media with the question of who had reached the summit first, they considered the silly point and signed a statement that read "We reached the summit at same time ", settling the argument for life.
In 1999, in his book "Views from the summit," Hillary finally broke his long silence about who was the first to reach the summit, he or Norgay. The book explains that Norgay and he went together and while Norgay knotted rope, he went forward a few steps until she found herself in a snowy, flat and exposed to wind, in which there was only space around. Norgay quickly met with him and they looked around in wonder. This month, 54 years later, Sir Ed has reached another summit Tenzing, from which you view the world together again at his feet.
Ed, as he liked to be called, died at age 88. Was only 15 minutes on top and none of the pictures taken that day to bear witness to the event is Hillary, Tenzing did not know they use a camera. But those fifteen minutes, accompanied by a lifetime later, in an interview, this simple but stubborn man recognized totally amazed by the fuss that had caused his adventure in the world had just climbed a mountain, "he would say. Always humble and modest mountaineer declaring a very ordinary New Zealander, maybe not too bright, but determined and practical.
of restless feet, the adventures of Edmund Hillary on Everest did not finish. In 1958 he led an expedition to the South Pole, almost Half a century after the legendary race between Amundsen and Scott, using a route through an uncharted landscape. It also conducted an expedition in the Himalayas to try to find the snowman or Yeti. In 1977 in a personal journey of looking after the death of his wife Hillary traveled the Ganges River in India from its source to its mouth. In 1985 he flew to the North Pole with the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong.
His interest and stubbornness did not stay in the adventure and exploration. From his famous ascent in 1953 dedicated his life to helping Serpas the Khumbu region. "I think of all the things I've done, have more exciting been many of them there is no doubt in my mind that the most valuable of all was the establishment of schools and hospitals as well as rebuilding the monasteries in the mountains. Since
down the mountain in 1953, Hillary and Tenzing were harassed by the media with the question of who had reached the summit first, they considered the silly point and signed a statement that read "We reached the summit at same time ", settling the argument for life.
In 1999, in his book "Views from the summit," Hillary finally broke his long silence about who was the first to reach the summit, he or Norgay. The book explains that Norgay and he went together and while Norgay knotted rope, he went forward a few steps until she found herself in a snowy, flat and exposed to wind, in which there was only space around. Norgay quickly met with him and they looked around in wonder. This month, 54 years later, Sir Ed has reached another summit Tenzing, from which you view the world together again at his feet.
