European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine Sherpa guide tensing Norgay and sir Edmund Hillary after their completed ascent or mount Everett in 1ss3. Conquering Everest a beginning rather than the end by Eileen Alt Powell associated Pressa so sir Edmund Hillary what it s Ike to stand Al the lop of Iho world s tallest Mountain and to remembers the ice. Prickly tailing slivers of ice thai billow around Hie Summit of mount eve isl like a White Halo they Boie into your lace cutting and tingling and Exhilda Ralik , Hillary and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay became inc first men to conquer Everest neither Hillary nor Norgay. Who died in 19b6, Over said who got Whoie first 11 we reached in logo incr thai Salt Hillary says ending discussion of Iho Issue. Since their ascent on May 29.1953. 20h men and women have followed them up the massive 29.d2b.fool Mountain that straddles the Border Between Nepal and Tibet. Early in May two Loams reached the Summit lion opposite sides and broadcast stunning pictures of azure skies and the craggy Snow covered Himalayas rising above the Clouds at the lop of the world. It was the first Lime two parties had scaled the world s highest Mountain simultaneously and it was the first live telecast Fiona the Summit Hillary said not Oil the learns reached the Peak. I think some of the expeditions nowadays Are on the Gimmicky  but conceded that it s one method of raising Money Tho ones i Admire Are those who do a Lough and Ditl cult nov route and do in cleanly and with style mount Everest to Many symbolizes the literal and lieu Kalivo High Point of a Mountaineer s career but Hillary who discussed his me and climbs in an interview views it As a beginning rather than the end of adventurous  ii did Atli All win the new Sealander Knighthood irom Queen Elizabeth. More important he says in earned him tha financial backing to climb scores of Solhei peaks in the Himalayan Chain to trek to the South Polo and even to launch a Tun bul Ungru Illus quest Lor the legendary yell or abominable snowman Hillary now 63, spends much o his time those Days behind desks in three capital cities of the asian subcontinent As new zealand s High commissioner ambassador to India Nepal and Bangladesh. Although his Broad shoulders and 6 foot-3-Inch i 9 my Highl suggest he could still take on eve isl he holds to trekking hiking and older lower Altitude sports i m finding Itic Hills Are getting steeper. Hillary admits friends including the Indian Len Agishe has led on while water railing trips and inc Liebal Sherpa children a visits at Mountain schools Call him sited born Edmund Percival Hillary to Auckland on july 20,1919, he Penl a Good Deal of his Chi Hood Reading adv Eluio books and daydreaming i hate was a phase when i was the tastes gun in the West another when i explored the Antarctic Hillary said "1 would walk Lor hours with my mind Dot nit err Uhny so rugged  initial spiked crampons Lor their tools my Ico a i lacking the modern Day curve Phil la Amales Vei ucal  j there was also a  in tumor physicians had warned us Fiat Hueu l we Gollo Inq top with of n i jul collapse and die because of inc thin  just Short of inc Summit  and Norgay Tut what appealed to i an insurmountable obstacle .1 Putin Al Rock Stop 10feel 12m High Marir ii Cong carefully they Lound a crack where Irie ice was breaking away from Ine Rock and eased their Way up the spot is known to mountaineers today As Hillary s step " Hillary says he is most often asked to reaching the Summit was accompanied by same religious or up Malual pen enc. Tor me. No Hilliery said ii was mostly a sense of Salish action and Surprise  nor Siy he says was More co Lionel i Shook his hand  recall. I to throw his Aims around my Sli Ouli Ira s and gave me a tremendous hug " Lacr Norgay a Buddhist buried is of Candy and biscuits in the Snow As Agil Lotic gods Hillary said atop Everest. Hillary said Fie quickly Lound his attention turning to other unconquered peaks with the Ico panicles cutting into his face and frosting his Cheeks he scanned nearby Makalu Peak 27,807 icel and Woi cd out a climbing route. Hillary failed in an attempt on Makalu in 1954, but a French team Mode it up several years Lacr. If his vocation today is diplomacy and the outdoors. He is working to improve the lol of the poor Schipa tribesmen who live in the Hills below eve isl since 1961, he has raised about $21x1,000 a year to build schools hospitals and water systems Lor the Sherpa of Nepal the of Lorl has Cost him Moio than Timo and Energy. His wife Louise and 16 year old Dau Glicr Belinda were a Nice in a pane crash in 1975 in route to pin him Al orb of his Sherpa hospitals. His son Peter 33. Of Melbourne makes his living As a ski instructor and Mountaineer. Peter has tailed twice in of forms to climb Everest. A daughter Sarah 31, is an Art restorer in Auckland Thirlon people have climbed Everest More than once including nepali Sun dare Sherpa who has been to Iho lop four limes. But Hillary says he never had any desire to repeal the in there were so Many other  saturday. May 28, 1968 the stars and stripes Paga 13