Something morbid that comes to mind when I see something about Mt. Everest:<p>“There Are Over 200 Bodies on Mount Everest, And They’re Used as Landmarks”<p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-are-over-200-bodies-on-mount-everest-and-theyre-used-as-landmarks-146904416/" rel="nofollow">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-are-over-200...</a>
Love the writing style of this article. Simple sentences, evenly paced, plain yet descriptive. It's an article about class, and does a great job of showing without telling. Workman-like in the best possible way.
NASA has a good approx of the route taken that day, the final push to the summit took 5hrs. Wonder with the lines up there today if it might take much longer. <a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/8396/edmund-hillarys-everest-route" rel="nofollow">https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/8396/edmund-hillary...</a>
Modern day Tenzing's last name is Norgay but in this article it's Norkay. I wonder when the change occurred and why...<p>Edit: part of the article hints at the answer, "when Tenzing Norkay, or Tenzing Norkay Sherpa, came to Darjeeling in 1933, he was treading a well-worn path. This is the way he has decided to spell his name—he now has business cards—but a European anthropologist who knows Tibetan says that “Tenzin Norgya” would be a better phonetic rendering, and that an accurate transliteration would be “bsTan-aDzin Nor-rGyas,” the capital letters representing the stresses."
I recommend <i>The Conquest of Everest</i> it's a documentary with footage from Hillary and Tenzing's climb. It's on Netflix (where I live at least).
Without Tenzing Noragy, GM OSN, Sir Edmund Hillary wouldn't have made it. In fact, Norgay is the one you see in the only photo on the summit. He himself was not familiar with the operation of the camera. <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Norgay_summit_Everest.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Norgay_s...</a>