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...small fiber cross had been given to the expedition's leader, Sir John Hunt, by "an English Roman Catholic father," he said, though "actually none of the Everest team was a Catholic ... It was in a small envelope about half the usual size. When we reached the summit, I remembered the crucifix and stuffed the whole thing, envelope and all, in the snow alongside Tenzing's [Buddhist] offering...
Dawn on May 29 made the Himalayas glow. Tenzing saw Thyangboche Monastery, 16,000 ft. below. At 6:30 they thawed out their boots and buckled on all that remained of the precious oxygen. The summit was hidden in cloud, but they knew it lay ahead and above...
...Bourdillon, a nuclear physicist, and Charles Evans, a Liverpool physician, went up from Camp VIII toward the halfway mark-a rounded shoulder of rock known as the south summit. Stumbling and panting, they made it and vanished in the cloud beyond. No man had been higher and lived, but the pair lacked strength to go on. Back they came...
Such hero-worshiping frenzy nurtured flames of nationalism that already were licking at the bright achievement itself. Nepalese busily spread the rumor that Tenzing had first gained the summit, then hauled up the New Zealander, who was too weak to make it alone. This provoked Colonel Hunt to turn rumor into row by insisting that it was Hillary who led all the way. Hunt also observed, with a patronizing qualification, that "Tenzing is a brilliant climber, within the limitations of his experience...
Finally Colonel Hunt called a press conference for Tenzing, Hillary and himself. They all agreed that the two men, roped together, had in effect reached the summit simultaneously. "A magnificent and wonderful comrade," said Hunt of Tenzing. "My own brothers," said Tenzing. "Hillary is my lifelong friend...