50 Years on Everest

“this will be worth watching!

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“well anyway, National Geographic is doint an interesting item on the time line of Mt. Everest.”

“50 years! It’s about time you come down mapleleaf.”

“Yeah, that's a long time. I mean, Rob Hall was lucky to be alive for just one night at the summit back in 1996. But 50 years! Jeez! You must have some powerful lungs.”

“LOl too funny guys :)”

“Didja see Goretex up there in those 50 years Maple?”

“I always liked what Edmund Hillary said...


"We knocked the bastard off."

-- Sir Edmund Hillary
The Sunday Times
July 21,1974”

“LMFAO @ geo.”

“I read the article in National Geographic yesterday. It said 200 people have died attempting to summit, most of them in falls.”

“yep. they were trying to organise an expedition to retreive all the dead people and junk left behind...

The Ultimate Trail Maintenance Crew?”

“i just wanna say. hilary is god.”

“i dont care if he used bottled oxygen and had sherpa support. "first man on top of everest" is something that can never be taken away from him. he went higher than ANY man than ever before. and props to tenzing norgay, who minutes later was the second man on top of everest”

“There's actually debate about that. Some people with alleged inside knowledge say Norgay actually summited first.”

“well hilarys still alive. lets ask him.”

“Yes, the Nat'l Geo articles are great! Just paged through a bunch of them last night. Interesting how many TONS of gear they brought to the base camps - not exactly ultralight backpacking.... Great map insert, too!”

“Yeah, some pictures I've seen of all the trash at the base camps really bums me out, Hey you high altitude dweebs, pack it in - pack it out! I don't care how important you think you are!!!”

“Artex,

who is this mysterious insider with knowledge???

You are not suggesting that there was a third person up on the mountain that day are you??

Or was there a watcher from a nearby peak almost as high? something like K2 LOL.

I truth the only 2 people who will ever know for sure are Edmond Hillary and Tensing Norgay, I do not think there was anyone else as high on the mountain as the South Col when they summitted.

Hillary's own account was that it made no difference, they were both so exhausted that they were taking turns breaking trail through deep snow for a few (yards or minutes ??) at a time, and he just happened to be breaking trail when the slope went down. His account was that he did not even really realize that this was the top until he saw there was nowhere to go up any more.”

“Noragy Tenzing said later that Hillary was the first. I read that somewhere recently, I think in the Outside magazine stuff about it.”

“noragy???? my typing is bad recently”

“I just got my National Geographic mag. Very cool!
It's all about the past 50 years of Mt. Everest.
It even came with a pull out map. Boy its a very cool map!


mapppppp”

“everyone knows Zay was first! And he did it in-utero!!!

mY hErO!!!”

“My respect for Hillary plummeted when he did some sorry-ass SUV ad that showed a big landyacht tearing up the countryside with Everest in the background and him holding an ice ax and babbling on about power and majesty.”

“The guy climbed Everest first and you're upset that he was in an SUV ad? Or was it the brand of SUVthat upset you?”