A friend to the Sherpas till the end
DESPITE what he had achieved, he was always very humble and committed." These were the words of the chief administrator of the Hillary Himalayan Trust on learning about the death of the man who conquered Mount Everest in 1953. Sir Edmund P. Hillary, together with Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa, succe...
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2008-01-20.
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