Posted 06/08/2024 8:43 pm
Great history lesson, thank you for teaching us something new today. Everest was on my bucket list about 25 years ago, I was into climbing and mountaineering. After reading so many books I decided the cost wasn't worth it nor was the chance of dying. You know most people die coming down (summit or not) or pushing beyond the hard stop time limit. I could see doing that when one is only a few hundred feet from the summit and it's time to turn around and quit. I realized it was not only expensive but totally selfish and unnecessary for me to attempt.
Everest is an amazing place though. I never thought about the coins used to pay the Sherpas, and Tibetans. From these Mallory/Irvine attempts in 1921, 22 and 24 it remained officially un-climbed until 1953 when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay finally made it to the 29,031.7 foot summit.
The 1924 expedition resulted in one of the greatest mysteries on Everest to this day: George Mallory and Andrew Irvine made a final summit attempt on June 8, 1924, but never returned, sparking debate as to whether they were the first to reach the top. They had to climb from the Tibetan side since foreigners were not allowed in Nepal until many years later. Hillary/Norgay made their successful summit from the Nepal side, Everest reportedly, was not summited from the Tibetan side until May 25, 1960 by a Chinese expedition.
P.S. Here is a link to a story I read just a few hours before seeing this post...
https://www.noemamag.com/the-unendi...h-mountains/
Everest is an amazing place though. I never thought about the coins used to pay the Sherpas, and Tibetans. From these Mallory/Irvine attempts in 1921, 22 and 24 it remained officially un-climbed until 1953 when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay finally made it to the 29,031.7 foot summit.
The 1924 expedition resulted in one of the greatest mysteries on Everest to this day: George Mallory and Andrew Irvine made a final summit attempt on June 8, 1924, but never returned, sparking debate as to whether they were the first to reach the top. They had to climb from the Tibetan side since foreigners were not allowed in Nepal until many years later. Hillary/Norgay made their successful summit from the Nepal side, Everest reportedly, was not summited from the Tibetan side until May 25, 1960 by a Chinese expedition.
P.S. Here is a link to a story I read just a few hours before seeing this post...
https://www.noemamag.com/the-unendi...h-mountains/
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Edited by westcoin
06/08/2024 8:48 pm
06/08/2024 8:48 pm
