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Died. Thomas D. Bourdillon, 31, British physicist and rocket expert who in 1953, with Dr. Charles Evans, climbed to within 300 feet of Mt. Everest's peak before being turned back by bad weather and lack of oxygen, three days before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkey made it to the top; in a fall while climbing Ausserberg in southern Switzerland...
...Kuldsha's fly-blackened hospital, Willie caught more truck rides until the old Silk Road led him to Kashgar. on Marco Polo's route. There Britain's mountaineering consul, Eric Shipton, and his No. 1 houseboy, a "hard nut" of a Sherpa named Tenzing Norkey,* fed him well and mapped out his route through the Himalayas to Kashmir. Alone now, half starving and delirious, Willie stumbled over the 16,000-ft. passes to be welcorned by a local potentate. A Norwegian freighter, which called at Singapore as Japan's first bombs fell...
From high in the Himalayas, a runner brought eight-day-old word that Sir Ed mund Hillary, 34, who one year ago reached the top of Mount Everest with Sherpa Guide Tenzing Norkey, was bat tling an unexpected threat to his life on another peak. After breaking a rib while rescuing a climbing companion on lofty (23,800 ft.) Mount Baruntse, Hillary fell ill with pneumonia. Aided by oxygen and penicillin sent from a nearby U.S. expedition, he was presumably being carried down from the 22,500-ft. heights of a glacier by fellow mountaineers...
HANS E. PRINGSHEIM Tokyo Sir: . . . Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkey...
Foot over foot for five weeks, the 13 Britons and the 35 Sherpas-the rugged Himalayan porters led by Tenzing Norkey, one of the world's great mountaineers-drive up a jagged icefall of 3,000 ft. Then on to the face of Lhotse, the second witch, a moon-cold, 4,000-ft. cheek of ice and blackish stones. Ten days of chopping here, with every breath a ton to lift, and then a breakthrough-two tiny figures bobbing far above through the ice glare, like spots before the eyes-to the summit ridge. The excitement rises; the onlooker...