The Biography of Tenzing Norgay

Thank you my friend SGT (Join to see) for reminding us that on may 28, 1953 Sir Edmund Percival Hillary KG ONZ KBE OSN who along with Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
Image: on May 29, 1953 Edmund Hillary took this photograph of Tenzing Norgay as they set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth.

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climb Everest - 1953 archive video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4egTHmDYho

FYI LTC Bill Koski CW5 (Join to see) MSG Brad Sand SGM Steve Wettstein SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" SP5 Mark Kuzinski PO1 William "Chip" Nagel PO1 John Miller SP5 Robert Ruck SPC (Join to see) PO3 Steven Sherrill SN Greg Wright Maj Marty Hogan SCPO Morris Ramsey TSgt Joe C. Cpl Joshua Caldwell SGT Michael Thorin SP5 Dave (Shotgun) Shockley SPC Margaret Higgins

Always fascinated with this expedition from when this was an accomplishment. Not the interstate highway reaching the top of Everest has become these days.

Yeah, I have read of him...I gather because he was in a country allied to the UK, there was a problem of some kind in him gett ing the exact same award as Hillary, so I gather he was given the closest comparable award UK law allowed at that time, or so I'd read....