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tT WAS LATE MAY IN THE CHILLY KHUMSU VALLEY OF NEPAL,

IN 1914, THE YEAR OF THE HARE *. KINZOM ANP GHANG
LA MINGMA WERE ON A PILGRIMAGE TO THE MONASTERY
OF GHANG LA. NEAR IT WAS THE MOUNTAIN MAKALU, ANP
TOWERiNG OVER EVERYTHING WAS CHOMOLUNGMA OR
EVEREST, THE TALLESTMOUNTAIN IN THE WORLP.
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ON THE TR1P.A
S0YWAS30RN
TO KINZOM.

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BORN IN SUCH
A HOLY PLACE.
HE1LGROWUP
TO BE A GREAT
PERSON.

r HE WAS NAMEP NAMGYAL WANGPl

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 TENZING NORGAY
THE FAMILY UYED IN A VILLAGE NAMED TENZING WAS UNHAPPY TO SE COOPED UP IN THE MONASTERY. ONE DAY -
THAMEY WHEN NAMGYAL WAS VERY LITTLE -

< IFORESEE A >

GREAT FUTURE FOR
HIM! YOU MUST LET’S CALL
v RENAMEHIM.*
him tenzing
k norgay.

TENZING RAN STRAIGHT HOME

MANYPEOPLE IN TENZINGS V1LLAGE USED TO GO AWAY DURING f CANITRY >5

TENZING MEAN5 FOLLOWER OF RELIGION’ THE SUMMER THESE SHERPAS" TALKED OF HOW THEYCLIMSED ON YOUR BOOTS?
AND NORGAY MEANS ‘FORTUNATE’ TALL MOUNTAINS WITH FOREIGNERS TENZING WAS FASCINATED I LL GIVE YOU MY
POCKET MONEY
r HA HA! > WHERE DID YOU
I WORE THEM V WEAR THEM? A
TENZING TURNED OUT TO SE LUCKY FOR THE FAMILY, FOR THAT YEAR ON EVEREST
A HUNDRED YAK WERE SORN IN THE1R HERD A5 TENZING GREW OLDER -

CHOMOLUNGMA
15 50 TALL! _

r AMALAA, ^ IMAGINE
WHATDOES y" GODDESS X BE ING 50
CHOMOLUNGMA MOTHEROF THE HIGH! .
W MEAN? ^ WORLD. OR THE
MOUNTAIN 50 HIGH
NO BIRD CAN FLY
^ OVER IT ^

/ CHOMOLUNGMA. A,
YOU'RETOO
THE FOREIGNERS
YOUNG. BESIDES, IT S
5AY IT’5 THE HIGHEST
V DANGEROUS.
v PEAK IN THE i
WORLD.

PERHAPS TENZING 5 PARENTS SENT HIM TOA

SOMEONE WILL monastery to learn to readand write.
. CLIMB TO
^THE TOP!
i ku
i
\W

TENZING DREAMEV
OF ADVENTURE CANI
CLIMB IT
k TOO?

-i. IT WAS DANGEROUS. IN 1924. TENZING HEARD

THAT TWO CLIMSERS - MALLORYANDIRVINE - h
DISAPPEARED CLOSE TO THE TOP OF EVEREST

'Zeom™UPPHI5rS KUEVt THATKENÅMIN0 * CHILP syhbouses gmng

himanewlife 'SHERPAS LIVE IN THE HILLYAREAS OF T1SET AND NEPAL. AND ARE FAMOUS FOR SEING GOOD CUMSERS
 AMAR CHITRA KATHA TENZING NORGAY

WHEN TENZING WAS 13, HE ONE DAY. WHEN TENZING WA5 13, HIS FRIEND DAWA THONDUP CAME UP TO HIM
RAN AWAY TO SEE THE WORLD.
^ IHEARTHERE N
IS AN EXPEDmON TO y IWANT N, ONCE MORE. TENZING LEFTHOME
TOGO, DA WA.
\W IWISH ' 'NI EVEREST STARTING
BUT MY PARENTS
r ICOULD SAY 1 FROM DARJEELING.
SAYIMTOO
GOODBYE BUTIF TO KATHMANDU
ITELL AMA LA AND PA
L. young. y
k LA* THEY WILL ^
STOP ME. £
A
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BOY1WHERE ^ A GROUP N
,: ARE YOU OF US ARE
GOINGALONE?

TENZING TRÅ VELLED SAFELYTO

RUNNING AWAY TO
DARJEELING TO
J
GETJOBS COME
KATHMANDU WITH THE GROUP. k. WITH US! y

NEAR THE NEPAL 30RDER THERE WAS A MIX-UP,

AND TENZING GOT SEPARATED FROM HIS FRIENDS

YOU LOOK
LOST. SON.
CAN I HELP
v YOU? A

WHEN TENZING EXPLA1NED. THE MAN, RINGA

AFTER TWO WEEKS, HE FELT HOMESICK. LAMA, TOOK TENZING TO UVE WITH HIM
- i - RINGÅS FAMILY WELCOMED TENZING 3UTHE
- GROUP WAS UNHAPPY HE TOLD RINGA A30UT IT
GOING TO KHUMBU
TODAY YOU COULD fT.,SONOTONLY
^ JOIN THEM ^ / HAVE ILEFT MY
/ PARENTS. I WISH I
( IT’S FOR NOTHINGI COULDGETTO
MY FRIENDS WILL MY COUSIN
DARJEELING!
CLIMB EVEREST LIVES THERE. I LL
WITHOUTME. TAKE YOU

TENZINGS PARENTS HUGGED HlM

IN DELIGHT. THEN THEY SPANKEP
*FATHEF HIM FOR RUNNING AWÆY _
 AMAR CHITRA KATHA
TENZING NORGAY
IN DARJEELING. TENZING D!D ODD J035. LIKE DEUVERING MILK FOR
RINGÅ S COUSIN HE LEARNED NEPAU SUT THE BEST FART WAS THE HE WAS ALSOINTERVIEWED FOR ANOTHER
BRITISH EXPEDITION TO EVEREST
yiEW Of THE HIMALAYAS, KANCHENJUNGA TOWERJNG IN THE MIDDLE

DO YOU HAVE ITS OK. "

ACLIMBING LET'5 G(VE HIM
CERTIFICATE? A CHANCE

MEANWHILE. FREPARATIONS BEGAN FOR TENZINGS ENTHUSIASM HAD IMPRESSED

THE BRITISH EXPEDITION TO EVEREST SUT TENZING COULD NOT WAIT
ERIC SHIPTON. A FAMOUS CLIMBER
• I 7Ti ■■ *
’rn: DOYOU
HAVE ANY AND OFF THEY WENTI ONE DAY, THE SHERPAS CARRIED LOADS OF OVER 40 KILOS
^ YOURE TOO ~
ryn
W,*
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EXPERIENCE? AS THEY NEARED EVEREST -

f THE EXPEDITION ^ YOUNG. TENZING! WHAT WOULD> '1*
IS INTERV1EWING WAIT SOME WE DO WITHOUT
^ YEARS ^4 WE CANT
SHERPAS IN THERE V THEM?
TAKE YOU
TAKE ME WITH YOU
THEN.
V DAWAI a
PA LA! WHAT
r ARE YOU DOING r
A'1
HERE? ^
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IHEARD ^
YOU WERE GOING
TOCHOMOLUNGMA
50 TENZING WENT BACK TO DEUVERING MILK 501CAME TO
V MEETYOU. ^
HE HAD BEEN IN DARJEELING ALM05TA YEAR
WHEN. ONE DAY, HE META SHERPA FROM THAMEY 1NHISABSENCE, ANEARTHQUAKEHADDAMAGED THEIRHOUSE.

TENZING!
WE RE 50 GLAD THIS EXPEDITION WAS MAINLYFOR RECONNAISSANCE* THEY TURNED BACK AT
YOU RE ALI VE THE NORTH COL (22,000 FT). TENZING FOUGHT HIS DISAPPOINTMENT |-
TENZING!YOUR
PARENTS THINK
OH NO' -v—:
IMU5T GO
JWRE DEAD . JOTHEM SO CLOSE AND YET
IT WILL BE SO NICE WE DIDNT GO TO
TO GO BACK HOME THE TOPIWILL COME
HOT FOOD. SOFT L BACK, ONE DAY /-r
Nw BEDS AH!
ILLSTAYAND
HELPREBUILD
the HOUSE

'

TENZING RUSHED HOME TO REASSURE HIS PARFht*

* EXPLORING AN AREA TO KNOW MORE ABOUT IT

7
 AMAR CHITRA KATHA
TENZING NORGAY
^ LErS CALL HER NIMA
W 1956, TENZING WENTRACK TO EVEREST WTTH ERIC SHIPTONS TEAM. TENZING GOT A JOB IN CHITRAL • WITH MAJOR WHITE, AN AFTER OUR POOR SON. YOU MUST
ARMY OFFICER. THERE, HE GOT THE TERRIBLE NEWS THAT COME BACK TO CHITRAL
HIS SON HAD PIEO OF PYSENTERY IN PARJEEUNG. TENZING WENT HOME
9 V • 1W • •
m LJ
SOI YOU R FAMILY
WILLNEED A
YOU NOW ' Æ ■

roURSONIS^
GONEBUTWE
HAVE ANOTHER
v DAUGHTER. a

THIS TIME THE STORMY WEATHER \ ON THE WAYBACK TO KATHMANDU - f

3
MADE THEM TURN BACK j \ i mr
Jk *éÅ

TENZINGLOVEP TRAVELUNG AROUNP WITH BUT THE CLIMATE PIP NOTAGREE WITH PAWA PHUU
THE ARMY HE LEARNT TO SKI IN KASHMIR..
DRJNKTHIS,
ITTL GIVE YOU
STRENGTH.

HALFWAY
ACROSS HIS ...HE WASSWEPT AWAY. ^ THIS 15 A V
HANDSUPPEP DANGEROUS
lK
I JOBI /
\

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... ANP TRAVELLEP THE HINPU KUSH MOUNTAINS
HE LEARNT HINPUSTANI, CHITRALI ANP PASHTUN
IN 1544. DA WA PHUTIPIEP

TENZING STRUGGLEP TO BRING UP HIS PAUGHTERS, BUT-

ONE MAN
PECtPEVTO HUSH O
CROSS WtTHOUT VI,vlj _ r I CANNOT TAKE ^
CARE OF THEM SY
PA LA. THIS WE'LL BE
THEPULLEY ITWAS THE FIRST MOUNTAINEERING ISSOBUMPY! THERE
DEATH TENZING SAW. MYSELF. [Link]^i
S I UNDERSTAND. X» v MAJOR WHITE a
IN 1956 HE WAS BACK ON EVEREST FOR THE
FIRST TIME THEY USED OXYGEN CYUNDERS WEN WORLD WARHBEGAN IN1939 THE ( YOU MUST RETURN TO Uft!
BRJVSH STOPPED theirexpepitions V YOUR FRJENDS IN JJ
NWDARJEELING. ^ MJ
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HEAVY SNOW ANP RAIN FORCEO THEM BACK TENZING SPENT TIME WITH DAWA PHUT1 ANP
THEIR children. nima oorjeand pem PEM
* NOW IN PAKISTAN
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 TENZING NORGAY
IM SORRY, ^
NO GENERAL TICKETS ARE
AT THE FOOTOF THE MOUNTAINS 1919 TUAKAU. NEW ZEALAND FERCIYAL AND GERTRUDE HILLARY HAD A SON. EDMUND
AVAILASLE THESE ARE
WAS A TOWN NAMED DIF. r~^~
^ ARMYTRAINS ^
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EDMUND GREW UF WfTH HIS OLDER SI3LINGS, REXANPJUNE ED

WAS A COMFLETE 300KW0RM AND JUNE WAS HIS LOOK-OUV
AFTER WAITING SEVERAL PAYS, WE WILL NOW SE
TENZING THOUGHTOFA FLAN. ASLE TO TRAVEL
ON THE TRAIN.
YOURE WEARING JUST WHEN
THE MAJOR’S I GOT TO THE
kv UNIFORM? ^ EXCITING PART
ry ' EDIDADS
\Y.
HERE! DO TURN
OFF THE LIGHT

TENZING AND HIS DAUGHTERS TRAYELLED ACROSS INDIA. FROM THE

WESTERN END OF THE HIMALAYAS TO DARJEELING IN THE EAST.
X 7ik\'x WU tvl1 v. --

SKINNYANDGAWKY, ED JOINEDAUCKLANDGRAMMAR SCHOOL ~ MAYSE >

WHEN HE WAS 11. IN GYM CLASS, ON HIS FIRSTDAY - i-- HE IS RJGHT1
IMUST SE SAD AT
YOUD SETTER GO PI_AY WITH k SPORTS ^
WHAT WILL THEY THOSE SOYS THERE THEY RE
SEND ME NEXT1 k SAD AT SPORTS. TOO

n° TENZING MARRIED THE

CHEERFUL AND INTELLIGENT ANGLHAMl l <;wi
MS* UMHG MOTHSR TOPEMrlZ Hn
EP S EXFERIENCES IN SCHOOL LEFT HIM SHYAND NERVOUS
YOU WORE A
MAJORS ON A SCHOOL TRIF TOMOUNT RUAFEHU
.UNIFORM? AS HE GREW OLDER. ED TOOK UF30XING.
r THERE WA5 NO AND GAINED SOME CONFIDENCE rr*5~
OTHERWAY TOGET THIS IS
^ thechildren WHAT IWANT
HOME V'' FROM LIFE -
ADVENTURE'

SHORTLY5EF0RE DARJEEUNG. TENZING TOOK

OFF THE UNIFORM AND THEY GOT OFF THE TRAIN OVER THE NEXTFEW YEARS. EDCLIMPEP WHENEYER HECOULD
 AMAR CHITRA KATHA TENZING NORGAY

ED AND HARRYJOINEDA CLIMBING EXPEDITION WITH TWO OTHER MOUNTAINEERS - RUTH ADAMS AND MICK SULUYAN.
7 939 WORLD WAR // KGAH AT FIRST-
AS THEY CUMBEDIA PEROUSE’ ..
BUT EVENTUALLY, ED MED THE NEW
ZEALAND AIR FORCE HE WAS POSTED
il \\,W t ■7
IN FUI HERE. HE OFTEN WENTBOATING
Uif W1TH HIS FRIEND, RON WARD

WAR ISA
TERRJDLE THING
WONT FIGHT
r *-
ALL RIGHT, ED? T

RUTH SLIPPED.

* RUTH WAS BADLYINJURED MICK AND HARRY WENT TO GET HELP

o
READY. ED? YOU CAN SIT \
SNUGLY IN HERE. \ GROAN'
IT LL DE LIKE /
YOUROWN /A

ONE DAY. THEY WERE TRYING OUT A MOTOR

1 Li \GLOQ\y

30AT WHEN THE FUEL TANK EXPLODED J

~V

i ^ RON! JUMP»

MICK AND HARRY RETURNED THE NEXT DAY. WITH MORE RESCUERS

YOU LL DE
HOME SOON
RUTH
J

s\

RA THEY CUMBED TO THE SOUTH OVER THE NEXTFIVE DAYS THEY MADE THE LONGSLOWDES
RJDGE OF MTCOOK. NEW
ZEALAND S HIGHESTPEAK.
L
| SEVERELY INJURED, THEYMANAGED ED ALSO PRACTISED CLIMBING IN T 949. ED AND HIS PARENTS SAILED TO ENGLAN
TQ SWIM TO SHORE r HOME OH SICK LEA VE. ED DECIDED HE HAD MORE INTERESTING WITH HIS FRIEND. GEORGE LOWE. WHERE JUNE WAS GETTINGMARRIEP i
JO 1)0 f HANSTAYING IN BED - ROCK CLIMBINGI
I D LIKE TO
CUMD IN
rt dalance SWITZERLAND
SOME DAY. ED
YOUR
/ WEIGHT, ED^

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HARRTAYRES. ONE OF NEW ZLAlAUrr*5
KST M0UNTAINEER3. WAS EPS MENTOR I
'A MOUNTAIN IN NEW ZEALAND
12 * 13
 TENZING NORGAY
AMAR CHITRA KATHA
THE SWISS MAN WAS NAMED RAYMOND LAMSERT, LAMSERT HAD GROWN UFIN THEALPS HE HAD LOST ALL HIS
AFTER THE WEDDING. ED WENT TO EUROPE HE CLIMSED THE ALF5 IN AUSTRIA AND SWITZERLAND TOES TO FROSTSITE. SUT HE WAS STILL ONE OF THE SEST
AND THE SHERFA WAS TENZINGIEARLIER THATYEAR
INAFRIL. TENZING HAD JOINED A SWISS EXFEPITION TO CLIMSERS AROUND HE AND TENZING SECAME FAST FRIENDS

TI RED YET,
TENZING?
r SUPER! GEORGE ^
WANTS ME TO JOIN HIM
IN GARHWAL, IN INDIA
ILL GET TO CLIMB THE
ONE DAT, ED GOT A LETTER FROM V HIMALAYAS! ^ A
GEORGE BK- -
WHERE OTHER FEOPLE SEEMED TO TIRE IN THE THIN AIR OF
THE HIGHER ALTTTUDES, TENZING SEEMED TO THRJVE IN TD
: -,t lm

V ITHINK YOU \
HAVE A SECRET THIRD
NOT AT ALL!
LUNG, TENZING' LOOK
ON THE WAYSACK. IN RANIKHET, HOW THE REST OF US
THEYGOTA TELEGRAM FROM ARE STRUGGLING y
ERIC SHIFTON ^ FOR AIR!

r EVEN THOUGH '

WE WERENT AMONG
THOSE WHO GOT TO
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ILLNEED
IT IN THIS
WEATHER'
SHIFTON S TEAM WAS DOING A
RECONNAISSANCE OF EVERESTS
NEFAL SIDE
_J NEXT YEAR ^ AJTM
THE SWISS WILL TRY
THOUGH THEYPID NOTGET VERY HIGH UF EVEREST, ED WAS HAFFY EVEREST WE1LCLIMS
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THISSIDE SEEMS
LESS DIFFICULT TO —

CLIMP THAN THE

. TISETAN SIDE, THEY TURNED AND WENT DOWN
ERIC —

WE CANTGIVE
k
UP SO EASILY.
LET S TRY THE
w SUMMIT

1952 THEYDID NOT MAKE TT TO THE TOF OF CHO OYU ON THEJR WAYSACK TO NAMCHE SAZAAR /

[Link] THAT SWISS \ ’V£im

EXPEDITION IS Lj
IVjUST DACK FROM HP)
i f ^EVEREST r Bv

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F**7/\|1 r 2 1 HEARASWISS^ | r «•
T ' \ L 1 'Ar A |* / I i i

f W MAN AND A SHERFA fl

GOT VERY CLOSE TO
v THE TOP! y THEY HAD CLIMSED TO 3611 METRES. THE
a SUT THEYCOULD HARDLYMOVEEVEN
HIGHEST ANYONE HAD SEEN TJU THEN.
TENZING WAS SEGINNING TO FEEL DIZZY | L

THE FLACE FROM WHICH MOST TREKS TO EVEREST START

15
14
 AMAR CHITRA KATHA r YOU*RE MADI
f I HAVE TENZING NORGAY ANG LHAMU WAS
THE SWISS PECIPEP TO CL1M3 EVEREST / NOONEEVER \ V TO TRY HORRJFIEP i-2 YOUYE BEEN ILL,
AGAIN THAT VEAR IN THE AUTUMN. f CLIMBS IN THE > SPRING, 1953. IN PARJEELING, AND YOU^RE 50
>-' WEWANT A AUTUMN. YOURE A MRS HENPERSON OF THE r THEY'D LIKE ^ WEAKI A
TO REACH THE SUMMIT ALREADY TIRED, AND HIMALAYAN CLUB SENT FOR YOU TO JOIN AS THE
BEFORE THE BRITISH YOU WANT TO CLIMB TENZING. SIRDAR* AND A FULL
.CLIMB IN THE SPRING K AS WINTER J THE BRITISH EXPEDITION MEMBEROFTHE
^ OF 1953. ^ BEGINS? S TO EVEREST. LED BY JOHN VCLIMBING TEAM a
HUNT, IS DETERMINED TO
REACH THE SUMMIT.

TENZINGINSISTEP
TENZINGS FAMILY WAS APPALLEP ONGOING...
TENZING COULP
RUT ANG LHAMU HAP BEEN
NOTREFUSE.
RIGHT ABOUT THE WEATHER
IT ONLY GOT WORSE
TENZINGS FRIENPS GAVE ...HIS BENGALI ... .ANP HIS PAUGHTER
THE WIND I CAN... r IVE TRIED ^ HIM THE TRAPIWNAL FR1ENP RABI MITRA HIKAA GAVt HIKA AK1
ISSO BARELY TO CLIMB EVEREST BUPPHIST FAREWELL GAVE HIM THE INPIAN
STRONG! MOVE! SIX TIMES. INEED SCARF. FOR LUCK... FLAG
TO TRY AGAIN THIS
V TIME. A

LETS TRY PUTTHIS IN

THE RIGHT
GOING ALITTLE
. PLACE! .
FURTHER.

STILL, THEY
STRUGGLEP ON

ED. I D LIKE YOU

TO MEET TENZING.
TWENTYOF THE BESTSHERPA CUMBERS. INCLUOING YOU HAVENT CLIMBED
PAWA THONPUP, LEFTWITH TENZING TENZING WORE TOGETHER,
SILENTLY, THEY A REP SCARF LAMBERT HAP GIVEN HIM WHEN THEY HAVEYOU?
TENZING FELL ILL. PEURIOUS WITH
WALKEP POWN. MALARIA ANP EXHAUST10N i-

YOUVE BECOME
^ S0 THINI

r HEARD ABOUT
YOUR RECORD CLIMB
ON EVEREST LAST YEAR
. IVE WANTED TO .
kv. MEET i

YOU MUSTNT
GO ON A NY
EXPEDITIONS
. THIS YEAR
THEY REAUSEP THEY
HAP TO TURN BACFL

* THE HEAP OF THE SHERPA TEAM

17
 AMAR CHITRA KATHA TENZING NORGAY

LEAVING KATHMANDU, THE TEAM WALKEO THROUGHA BEAUTIFUL LAND5CAPE

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SUMMIT
South
CLIMBING MEMBCRS Summit
* ROUTE MAP
Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay

" DONT F*’ET. ^

AMA LA. I MIGHT
REACH THE TOP
SOON THEY CLIMBEDINTO THE ATNAMCHE BAZAAR. TENZING'5 w THIST1ME! >
KHUMBU VALLEY-TENZING‘5 FAMILY CAME TO SEE HIM |-
HOME i-
^ IWISH YOU
WOULDNT KEEP RISKING
YOUR LIFE ON THIS
V MOUNTAIN. TENZING „

y m

Tom Bo

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FROM NAMCHE BAZAAR THE FARTY SET UP CAMF AT THYANGBOC HEMC^AS TERY F CP 1
Charles tv an Michael Ward Gcoree Lowe THREE WEEKS, SMALL GROUFS FRACT1SEDON THE NEARBY FEAKS, T0ACCUMAT1SE

George Band Westmacott

BASE
CAMP
. A4

Wyli
Charles Wylie

lom to art ce
 TENZING NORGAY
r—f THE DOCTOR \- THE BRITISH HAD BROUGHT AN HILLARY CRAWLED 26TH APRIL. AN ADVANCE BASE
CLOSER TO EVEREST. THE BASE CAMP WAS SET UP ON f SAYS YOURE \ L / 50 YOU WILI^ CAMP HAD TO BE SET UP
1&-FOOT ALUMINIUM LADDER. ACROSS ON IT AS HE
THE KHUMBU GLACIER ABOVE TT WAS THE KHUMSU FITTER THAN DEFINITELY ] tufy A^PMAi r=nn- —- GOTTOTHEMIDDLE...
tCEFALL COVERED IN CRUMBLING FISSURES OF ICE
Veveryone else, / EA- V ATTEMPTTHE J
TENZING SUMMIT.

HILLARY AND TENZING ROPED

TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME

THEY WORKED SWIFTLY. AND SOON -

THE OTHER SHERPAS HOW WILL
WERE WORRJED WE FACE YOUR
WE’LL USE LAST LOOR WE LEFT w ^
FAMILY IF YEAR'5 CAMP IV
DONT WORRY. STORES OF FOOD
SOMETHING ASOUR
IU BE ALL HAPPENS TO LAST YEAR
BE CAREFUL, k. RIGHT a ADVANCE BASE
YOU? CAMP. ^
. TENZING ^ V

\JL* 7 SINCEWE RE
ON THE WAY BACK. IN CAMP II \ DOING SO
WELL.. >

,
'_I
HILLARY WAS PART OF THE TEAM THATSTARTED ON THE
\CEFALL MARKING THE SAFEST ROUTE W!TH COLOURED FLAGS

. LETS 00 ALL THE YOUD BETTER

WAY DOWN. GEORGE. I‘LL [Link]! ITS
SAY HELLO TO YOU ON THE FOUR
5 0’CLOCK RADIO FROM K ALREADY. V
BASE CAMP!

RTLY AFTER CAMP III-

r WEUSED ^
ROPES TO
CROSSOVER
k LAST YEAR.

CP f

V Y
BUTTHI5
EXPEDITION IS \
PMi
* ^ " jpmvi AV. _
.■K

LARGER WENEED]
l SOMETHING MOREJ l<2- wJ£2 .
\ PERMANENT. A
THROUGH THE AREA THEY
II CAMP II WAS SET UP HALF WAY UP THE
DOWN THE PRECARIOUS ICEFALL CALLED THE ATOM BOMB.
. J ICEFALL AND CAMP III AT THE TOP TENZING AND HILLARY JOGGED.

20
 AMAR CHITRA KATHA TENZING NORGAY ^LETSCUMB^
OVER! TO THE ADVANCE
AS ED LANDED. A
PIECE OF ICE BROKE BASE CAMP
THE BRIDGE . AND BACK
WILL TAKE TOO
LONG' I M f OUR PARTY > ONLY FOUR WE MU5T
GOING TOJUST PEOPLEWILL PROVEOUR
HAS 362 PORTERS
V JUMP > TRY FOR THE FITNESS ^
20 SHERPAS, AND
V 15 CLIMBERS > , 5UMMIT a

THAT NORMAL LY TENZING AND ED LEFT BASE

YOU WANT TO CAMP AT FIVE ONE MORNING
BE BACK IN TAKES NINE HOURS
ADAY? OVERTHREE DAYS!

HE PULLED THE ROPE TIGHT. AND ED

JAMMED AGAINST THE WALL ...

ED MANAGED TO CLIMB OUT UNHURT THEYRUSHED TO THE BASE CAMP...

^ CHARLES EVANS '"Xs

rAND TOM BOURDILLON WILL ^
THAT AFTERNOON ' TENZING TRY THE SUMMIT FIRST, USING
AND HILLARY CLOSED-CIRCUIT OXYGEN ED
ARE BACK AND TENZING WILL TRY NEXT
THATS 1 200 ALREADY . V WITH OPEN-CIRCUIT S
METRES IN OXYGEN ^
JUSTFOUR
V HOURS! ^

RJGHTON TIME
HELLO,
GEORGE! IWAS WORRIED
YOUD HAVE AN
ACCIDENT THEIR MARATHON CLIMB PAID OFF
CLIMBING DOWN
50 FAST ^ HUNTAND DA NAMGYAL WENT FURTHER UP TO LEAVE
FOR THE FINAL CLIMB. GEORGE AND ANG NYJMA HAVE 50 ME
SUPPLIES THEY RETURNED JUST AS HILLARY AND TENZING
CUTSTEPSINTO THE STEEPICE SLOPE CALLED HOT LIME
CAME UP TO THE COL

r r IALM09TDID i
WITHOUT TENZING.
THE LHOTSE FACE. r-/ H ' r .

w YOU ARE ^
EXHAUSTED'
*'
h JUiCE^

IWOULD HAVE s
BEENHNISHED ^ r
TODAY! .
tt»'

ABOVE rr WAS THE SOUTH COL

Al ITR JHAT I D AND TENZING PARTNERED TOGE THER OFTEN A BARREN. ICYSADDLE
BETWEEN EVEREST AND LHOTSE
I
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 AM AR CHITRA KATHA TENZING NORGAY
ON THE 26TH Of MAY. THAT NIGHT THEY HUDDLED ON THE 29TH OF MAY, THEY AWOKE
FVAVS AND 50URDILL0N IN SED AROUND MIDNIGHT, AT 3:30 IN THE MORNING
TENZING AWOKE.
MY BOOTS LETS HOPE
ARE FROZEN! THEY MELT
^ 500N. ^

THEY CUM&ED TO THE SOUTH SUMMfT.

HIGHER THAN ANYONE HAD EVER 5EEN

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