Edouard Wyss-Dunant
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Edouard Wyss-Dunant was a Swiss physician and alpinist. He had a distinguished career in medicine, both in his own country and abroad. He published a number of treatises in his professional capacity a
Edouard Wyss Dunant; Everest Expedition 1952
Tenzing Norgay
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Tenzing Norgay, born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. On 29 May 1953, he and Edmund Hillary were the first confirmed to have reached th
Edouard Wyss-Dunant
…the access to the South Col, the conquest of the labyrinthine Khumbu Icefall, and possibly the advance to the South Col. Raymond Lambert and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were able to reach a height of about 8,595 metres (28,199 ft) on the southeast ridge, setting a new climbing altitude record. Tenzing's experience was…
Norgay in 1967
Statue of Norgay at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute
Mount Everest
Sir Edmund Hillary greets Tenzing Norgay, c. 1971.