Mountaintop experience II.(Century marks)(Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, became the first known persons to scale the Mount Everest)(Brief article)

From: The Christian Century | Date: February 20, 2007 | Copyright information

MOUNTAINTOP EXPERIENCE II: On May 29, 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa climbing companion, Tenzing Norgay, became the first known persons to scale the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest. (George Mallory had attempted it in 1924 but died in the effort, and it is not known whether he made it to the top.) In the 1950s mountain climbing was a highly competitive and nationalistic ...

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