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It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Sir Edmund Hillary
Eiger I, mittellegigrat, Berner Alpen, in Switzerland.
Photo: Christian Gisi.
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Here's your incredible friendship story of the day:
In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first two people to ever summit the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest. Before the commercialised hiking expeditions of the 21st century, Hillary and Norgay had to make the climb without a pre-fixed route, discovering their own path to the top (one of which later became known as the Hillary Step in the Everest climbing trail).
The pair did not know each other well beforehand but met through their mountaneering peers. Norgay (a sherpa, Himalayan locals well-known for their mountaneering prowess) apparently made a lasting first impression on Hillary due to his incredible mountaneering skills, patience, complete with his "flashing, irresistible smile".
In one ocassion during their few earlier expeditions together, Hillary stepped on a crumbling ice and almost fell to his death before Norgay saved his life. This made him determined to ask Norgay to be his partner for his Everest Summit expedition.
Amongst other members of the expedition, their pairing became the first one who were successful, reaching the highest point on Earth at 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953.
At the top, Hillary hilarously recalled extending his hand to shake Tenzing's hand in "a good Anglo-Saxon fashion," but his Nepalese-Indian friend jumped him on the back and gave him a massive hug instead. As he said, it was the “great moment for which I had waited all my life, [...] I waved my arms in the air and then threw them around Hillary, and we thumped each other on the back until, even with the oxygen, we were almost breathless!”.
But beyond this monumental achievement, the gentlemen's agreement they made at the top was perhaps an equally impressive commitment.
Being the only people in the world who were present, Norgay and Hillary made a promise to present their a success as a joint effort. Both countrymen were under international pressure to divulge who was actually the first to step foot on the summit. Despite the rising colonial tension at the times, both Norgay and Hillary refused to say anything other than they reached the summit together as a team, carrying the secret to their deathbeds.
After Everest, Hillary devoted his life to assisting the overlooked sherpa people of Nepal. He established the Himalayan Trust, constructing many schools and hospitals in Nepal. Norgay continued to climb mountains all over the world for the rest of his life and died in his beloved Himalayas.
Hillary and Norgay remained lifelong friends, bonded for life. When Tenzing Norgay died in India in 1986, the country was in a massive political turmoil and all the streets in Darjeeling were closed due to confrontations with Nepalese separatists.
Edmund Hillary was the only foreigner allowed to enter the region, as reporters recounted how protesters parted ways to enable him to pay respects to his old friend.
In 2003, their sons Peter Hillary and Jamling Norgay climbed Everest together, celebrating the 50th anniversary of their fathers' memorable climb that changed the world forever.
#friendships that transcended lifetimes#friendships that changed the world#this one quite literally!#them on top of everest tho 🥺#let's have a decent handshake lad- Nope let me give you a massive hug!!#i'm a sucker for incredible friendships#everest#climbing#tenzing norgay#edmund hillary#mountaneering#nepal#new zealand#tibet#india#himalayas
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Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow.
-- Edmund Hillary
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Hero. Legend. Icon.
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Seven. Lucky number.
Hillary (2016)
#hillary#hillary 2016#determined to wrest the hillary tag back to where it should be#edmund hillary#tenzing norgay#my: gif#*#hillary pbs
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It's not the mountain we conquer but ourselves - Edmund Hilary
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MOUNTAINEERING - EVEREST AND HILLARY
Signatures of Edmund Hillary ("E.P. Hillary"), Sherpa Tenzing Norgay ("Tenzing") and nine other members of the Everest Expedition of 1953 (leader John Hunt, mountaineers Michael Westmacott, George Band, Alfred Gregory, Wilfrid Noyce, Charles Wylie, George Lowe, expedition doctor Griffith Pugh and cameraman Tom Stobart), on a pictorial postcard depicting a B.O.A.C. Argonaut Speedbird.
THE FIRST ASCENT OF EVEREST: SIGNATURES OF THE SUCCESSFUL 1953 EVEREST TEAM ON THEIR RETURN FLIGHT TO THE UK. The summit of Everest was reached by Hillary and Tenzing on 29 May 1953 and news of the expedition's success reached London in time to be released on the morning of the coronation of Elizabeth II on 2 June. 'On July 1, Tenzing and the British team left Delhi on a BOAC aeroplane which had been specially rerouted for them. On the way to London they stopped several times and were everywhere greeted by cheering crowds... When they stopped in Rome, as a reporter in The Times quipped, John Hunt and Tenzing came down the steps from the plane together, "almost as if to avoid any argument about who had been the first to touch Italian soil"' (Conefrey, M., Everest 1953: the Epic Story of the First Ascent, 2014). Their arrival in Rome was captured on film by British Pathé.
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Edmund Hillary på Mount Everest
Vem tror du var den första människan att bestiga toppen av Mount Everest, världens högsta berg? Om du gissar på namnet i rubriken till det här inlägget så gissar du helt rätt. Det var nämligen Edmund Hillary.
Edmund Hillary? Öh, va?
Vem var då Edmund Hillary? Jag skriver var eftersom han har hunnit försvinna ifrån alla oss levande. Han är alltså död. Edmund Hillary var en nyzeeländsk…
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Links & Quotes
Some links and quotes that caught my eye this week.
Mental health tip: Stop beating yourself up because of what you did or didn’t do in the past. Learn from it and keep moving forward. Check out a whole series of posts and videos on a Christian’s mental health. I have lots of new content every week, which you can check out on my YouTube channel.
“God cannot part with His grace, or goodness, or strength, as an external thing that He gives us, as…
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#Andrew Murray#archeology#Christianity#church history#Creation#Creator#Edmund Hillary#historicity#Jesus Christ#mental health#motivation#prayer#quotes#video
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It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
- Sir Edmund Hillary
#edmund hillary#hillary#mountaineering#mountains#adventure#rock climbing#athlete#femme#sports#outdoors#nature#endurance
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Famed mountaineer Edmund Hillary displays a rendering of a yeti at a 1960 news conference before departing on his expedition in the Himalayas.
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1953-First successful ascent
Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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Followers who followed my previous blog as well-- is there any chance that any of you reblogged the post from Fall 2022 where I wrote the letter I imagined my 11-year-old self would have sent to Edmund Hillary? I know it was part of a conversation with someone and THEY reblogged it, but I can't for the life of me remember who that user was.
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My daughters know me well!
Today is my birthday, and I’m now 69. To be honest, I don’t feel a year older than I was yesterday, but the numbers don’t lie, do they? I’ve shared a version of this piece in previous years and these have been well received, so I thought I’d do something for this year, too. I’ve shortened it a lot, and have finally found a way of embedding the videos which had…
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#PatheNews#StanleyMatthews#1953#Birthdays#Coronation#Edmund Hillary#Queen Elizabeth II#Sherpa Tenzing#The Ashes
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I head canon that taivan took AP history together and used to study together, although their studying methods clashed a bit - taissa had color coded flash cards and memorized the entire textbook while van went off on tangents about films related to what they were learning - they both got an A
#it’s pretty much canon that Van did well in history with that edmund hillary quip#and obviously Taissa excelled in everything#because she wouldn’t allow herself anything less#I feel like the fact that Van is also smart and driven gets ignored a lot#but it is canon#and that common ground was one of the foundations of their relationship pre-crash imo#taivan#taivan headcanon#taivan hc#yellowjackets headcanons#taissa x van#van x taissa
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