THE CONQUEST OF EVEREST
Two unlikely friends,Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first men to climb mount everest on may29,1953.
The world was still recovering from the war,and this feat stood out as proof that the human spirit was still capable of unadulterated heroism.

Both became the most celebrated citizens of their respective countries and went around the world on their behalf. But both devoted much of their lives to the happiness of an archetypically unprivileged segment of mankind: the Sherpas, Tenzing's people, true natives of the Everest region. Tenzing, who died in 1986, became their charismatic champion and a living model of their potential. Grand old Ed Hillary, who is still robustly with us, has spent years in their country supervising the building of airfields, schools and hospitals and making the Sherpas' existence better known to the world. Thus the two of them rose above celebrity to stand up for the unluckier third of humanity, who generally cannot spare the time or energy, let alone the money, to mess around in mountains.