CITY SCAN CONGRATULATE 2 SIR EDMUND HILLARY FOR 50TH ANNIVERSARY
KATHMANDU () - Nepal has celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest by making Sir Edmund Hillary, the man who "knocked the bastard off", an honorary citizen.
Hillary, who reached the summit with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay at 11:30 on the morning of May 29, 1953, was spending Thursday in Nepal's low-lying capital Kathmandu, at the age of 83 no longer able to handle the lack of oxygen in the mountains.
When the pair returned to camp after scaling the peak, Hillary, a New Zealander, famously told the expedition leader "we knocked the bastard off".
His son Peter, who has also scaled Everest, celebrated in the mountains at the Tengboche Buddhist monastery, where teams are blessed en route to the 8,850 metre (29,035 feet) summit.
Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand handed Hillary a certificate making him an honorary citizen at a ceremony for summiteers before the former beekeeper met the monarch of the world's only Hindu kingdom, King Gyanendra
More than 1,200 people have now climbed Everest.
More than 1,200 people have now climbed Everest.
But where Hillary and Tenzing cut their own way, most climbers today pay guides up to $65,000 to lay ladders across the gaping crevasses of the Khumbu icefall and rig ropes along the Hillary Step just below the summit to help them reach the top.
I WISH HIM 4 HIS LONG LIFE.
2 comments:
Congrets to Sir E. Hillary
What is the reality? Poor Sherpa who reached first on Everest than SIr
E.Hillary, but west always take ride on east and got the credit. What do you
think?
>From: "Sohni Dharti"
>Reply-To: "Sohni Dharti"
>To: "Sohni Dharti"
>Subject: GOOD ON U SIR EDMUND HILLARY
>Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 15:39:39 -0700
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IN RESPECT OF GAIL ON 29000 FEET , SIR HILLARY AND MR SHERPA BOTH REACH THE TOP AS A VERY STRONG TEAM ,BUT AS THEY REACH THE VILLAGE, THEY SCAN BY MEDIA ,AND ASKING BOTH WHO IS THE FIRST ,FIRST ANSWER CAME FROM SHERPA ,HE SAID HE IS ONE ,AND LATER SAME QUESTION ASK FROM SIR HALLARY ,HE SAID WE BOTH TOGETHER .STORY WENT ON AND ON ,BIZARRE SCAN FROM MEDIA CARRY ON 4 SOME TIME, . ,AFTER 50 YEARS, IN RECENT TIME SOME ONE ASK SIR HILLARY WHO WAS THE FIRST ON PEAK ,HE SAID THE VERY FIRST TIME ,HE IS THE ONE . AS U SAID WEST TAKE RIDE ON EAST, EVEN I DON’T THINK SO THESE BRAVE MOUNTAINEER REALISE ON THAT TIME ,WHAT GOING TO HAPPEN ,WHEN THEY COME DOWN 2 EARTH ,. AT THE END ,IF IT IS TRUE IT IS VERY SAD ,SOME ONE MISS THE WORLD TALLEST PEAK BY ONLY FEW METERS. SIR HALLARY KNOWS VERY WELL WHAT HAPPEN ON MAY 29TH 1953,HE IS ALSO HUMAN ,SOME WHERE IN HIS MIND GLUM WILL REMAIN FOREVER.. ,
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