First on Everest
JANUARY 16, 2008
Tenzing Norgay Sherpa
Sir Edmund Hillary
I have always had a fascination with mountaineering, though I have never done it on any level. But I have always felt that the real hereos of these adventure stories are the Sherpa people for whom mountain climbing is a job fraught with danger.
Note: In 1978 Rienhold Messner made the first ascent of Everest without supplemeentary oxygen, and in 1980 reached the summit solo, the first (and as far as I know the only) climber ever to summit without Sherpa support.
Note: In 1978 Rienhold Messner made the first ascent of Everest without supplemeentary oxygen, and in 1980 reached the summit solo, the first (and as far as I know the only) climber ever to summit without Sherpa support.
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