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| Thread ID: 111739 | 2010-08-10 00:15:00 | science proves | GameJunkie (72) | PC World Chat |
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| 1126222 | 2010-08-10 04:16:00 | Whatever. Prove me wrong. In his 1999 book "View from the Summit," Hillary finally broke his long public silence about whether it was he or Norgay who was the first man to step atop Everest. "We drew closer together as Tenzing brought in the slack on the rope. I continued cutting a line of steps upwards. Next moment I had moved onto a flattish exposed area of snow with nothing but space in every direction," Hillary wrote. "Tenzing quickly joined me and we looked round in wonder. To our immense satisfaction we realized we had reached the top of the world." |
The Hitcher (14826) | ||
| 1126223 | 2010-08-10 05:28:00 | That proves nothing. Sadly, there still is, and always will be, doubt as to who of the two actually got to to top first. |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 1126224 | 2010-08-10 06:22:00 | From the pic,he wouldn't win a beauty contest. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 1126225 | 2010-08-10 06:33:00 | That proves nothing. Sadly, there still is, and always will be, doubt as to who of the two actually got to to top first. It proves enough to me and many others. |
The Hitcher (14826) | ||
| 1126226 | 2010-08-10 06:40:00 | George Lowe - My great uncle! | xyz823 (13649) | ||
| 1126227 | 2010-08-10 06:59:00 | It would have been nice to have put their feet in a rucksack and done sack race together,then all would have been happy ever after. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 1126228 | 2010-08-10 07:05:00 | That proves nothing. Sadly, there still is, and always will be, doubt as to who of the two actually got to to top first. Quite a peurile attitude and extremely pointless. In Eds 1957 book High Adventure, he describes it this way: "I asked Tensing to belay me strongly, and I started cutting a cautious line of steps up the ridge. Peering from side to side and thrusting with my ice-axe, I tried to discover a possible cornice, but everything seemed sold and firm. I waved Tenzing up to me. A few more whacks of the ice-axe, a few weary steps, and we were on the summit of Everest." Ed was cutting steps, ergo he was in front. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1126229 | 2010-08-10 07:46:00 | Don't shoot the Messenger. You are entitled to your opinion. Others are entitled to theirs. Hillary was second. |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 1126230 | 2010-08-10 10:25:00 | That proves nothing. Sadly, there still is, and always will be, doubt as to who of the two actually got to to top first. Even though I was born a year after the event I can still remember the debate and after ED joined Citizens for Rowling I wouldn't trust him over anything. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1126231 | 2010-08-10 10:46:00 | Let's put an end to the crap..:) It wasn't until years later that Tenzing finally revealed exactly who reached the summit first: "A little below the summit Hillary and I stopped. We looked up. Then we went on. The rope that joined us was thirty feet long, but I held most of it in loops in my hand, so that there was only about six feet between us. I was not thinking of "first" and "second." I did not say to myself "There is a golden apple up there. I will push Hillary aside and run for it." We went on slowly, steadily. And then we were there. Hillary stepped on top first. And I stepped up after him." sarahcoledesign.com First successful ascent by Tenzing and Hillary In 1953, a ninth British expedition, led by John Hunt, returned to Nepal. Hunt selected two climbing pairs to attempt to reach the summit. The first pair (Tom Bourdillon and Charles Evans) came within 100 m (300 feet) of the summit on 26 May 1953, but turned back after becoming exhausted. As planned, their work in route finding and breaking trail and their caches of extra oxygen were of great aid to the following pair. Two days later, the expedition made its second and final assault on the summit with its second climbing pair, the New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a Nepali Indian sherpa climber. They reached the summit at 11:30 a.m. local time on 29 May 1953 via the South Col Route. At the time, both acknowledged it as a team effort by the whole expedition, but Tenzing revealed a few years later that Hillary had put his foot on the summit first.[42] They paused at the summit to take photographs and buried a few sweets and a small cross in the snow before descending en.wikipedia.org Like I said, childish to continue this debate as to who was first. They took it in turns to lead and cut steps, Hilary lead on the final stretch....not opinion.... documented fact. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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