Τένσινγκ Νοργκέι: Διαφορά μεταξύ των αναθεωρήσεων
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==Επιτυχής ανάβαση στο Έβερεστ==
Το 1953 πήρε μέρος στην αποστολή του [[Τζον Χαντ]], επιχειρώντας στο Έβερεστ για έβδομη φορά. Μέλος της αποστολής ήταν ο [[Έντμουντ Χίλαρι]],
<!--The Hunt expedition totalled over 400 people, including 362 [[Porter (carrier)|porters]], twenty [[Sherpa people|Sherpa]] guides and 10,000 lbs of baggage,<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,966102,00.html |title=Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing reach the top | World news |publisher=theguardian.com |date= |accessdate=2014-02-21}}</ref> and like many such expeditions, was a team effort.
The expedition set up [[base camp]] in March 1953. Working slowly it set up its final camp at the [[South Col]] at 25,900 feet (7,890 m). On 26 May, [[Tom Bourdillon|Bourdillon]] and [[Charles Evans (mountaineer)|Evans]] attempted the climb, but turned back when Evans' oxygen system failed. The pair had reached the South Summit, coming within 300 vertical feet (91 m) of the summit.<ref name="Reaching-the-top">{{cite web|url=http://www.unlockingthearchives.rgs.org/resources/documents/Reaching%20the%20Top3.pdf |title=''Reaching The Top''|publisher=Royal Geographical Society|accessdate=13 January 2008}}</ref> Hunt then directed Tenzing and Hillary to go for the summit.
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{{cquote|It has been a long road ... From a mountain [[coolie]], a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax.|||Tenzing Norgay<ref name="Ullman"/>}}
Tenzing and Hillary were the first people to conclusively set their feet on the summit of Mount Everest, but journalists were persistently repeating the question which of the two men had the right to the glory of being the first one, and who was merely the second, the follower. Colonel Hunt, the expedition leader, declared, "They reached it together, as a team."-->
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