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Tiger of the Snows: The Autobiography of Tenzing of Everest

June 23, 2013
Tenzing Norgay was one of the first two men to set foot on the summit of Everest, along with Edmund Hillary, in 1953. In 1952, Tenzing had co-pioneered the upper part of the Southeast Ridge, leading to the summit, with the great Swiss climber Raymond Lambert, but when he and Hillary reached the summit in 1953, Hillary spoke of Tenzing almost as if he were a child or merely a load carrier, describing how he had to pull Tenzing up a section of the final ridge like the landing of a fish and how he didn’t trust Tenzing with his camera to take his own picture on the summit.
James Ramsey Ullman, who had written mountaineering novels, including THE WHITE TOWER, and BANNER IN THE SKY, interviewed Tenzing, and wrote in his name the biography TIGER OF THE SNOWS.
This book is fascinating, not merely for Tenzing’s description of the Everest climb but also for his history not just as a climber, and not just as a Sherpa, but as a comrade to those with whom he climbed, for the adventures through which he lived, becoming th

Man of Everest - The Autobiography of Tenzing

June 23, 2013
Tenzing Norgay was one of the first two men to set foot on the summit of Everest, along with Edmund Hillary, in 1953. In 1952, Tenzing had co-pioneered the upper part of the Southeast Ridge, leading to the summit, with the great Swiss climber Raymond Lambert, but when he and Hillary reached the summit in 1953, Hillary spoke of Tenzing almost as if he were a child or merely a load carrier, describing how he had to pull Tenzing up a section of the final ridge like the landing of a fish and how he didn’t trust Tenzing with his camera to take his own picture on the summit.
James Ramsey Ullman, who had written mountaineering novels, including THE WHITE TOWER, and BANNER IN THE SKY, interviewed Tenzing, and wrote in his name the biography TIGER OF THE SNOWS.
This book is fascinating, not merely for Tenzing’s description of the Everest climb but also for his history not just as a climber, and not just as a Sherpa, but as a comrade to those with whom he climbed, for the adventures through which he lived, becoming the kind of clim

After Everest: An Autobiography

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