Human beings are always curious about everything that is unknown, and this curiosity can also evolve into a challenge to the difficulty of the unknown and an attempt at an unknown situation. In 1953, two people challenged the world's first peak out of curiosity, fortunately they successfully reached the summit, recording evidence of human conquest of the peak, but the oath made by these two climbers on Mount Everest made posterity suspicious.
For every climber and adventurer, Mount Everest is a sacred but seductive peak in their hearts, and over the years Everest has attracted countless people to try to unravel the mysteries of man and nature, trying to judge the limits of human challenges.
Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Sherpasin Noorge, the Sherpas guide, are two adventurers who are yearning but curious about Everest.
Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Edmund Hillary is a beekeeper who seems to have nothing to do with extreme sports like mounting Everest, but in fact because he is not physically strong since he was a child, and he is always ridiculed by teachers and classmates, which annoys little Edmund.
It wasn't until a chance time that Edmund participated in a mountaineering event organized by the school that he was not interested in various sports, and suddenly showed an unprecedented surprise and love for mountaineering. Since then, Edmund has continued to learn about mountaineering and has joined the Mountaineering Club.
Not long after, the shelling of world war 2 was ignited, and like many others, Edmund resolutely signed up for the Air Force to defend his homeland, but he was told that he needed to wait another year to enlist, and on the eve of enlistment, Eamond was secretly determined to take a mountain trip in the Alps in New Zealand, and his life began to change.
Since retiring from the Air Force, Edmund has joined the domestic mountaineering club and opened his indissoluble relationship with Everest. In 1953, Edmund applied to join the British Everest Expedition to challenge his beloved Peak.
As for the other person who climbed Mount Everest with Edmund, his name was Tenzin Noerge. Unlike Edmund, who grew up at the foot of Everest, he didn't seem to have any lofty ideals of climbing Everest, and all he did was just for work.
But the advantage of Tenzin Norge is that because he has lived at high altitudes for many years, he has also developed a physical quality that is different from ordinary people, and he is more able to adapt to the harsh weather conditions of Mount Everest. The local Sherpas are also engaged in the work of guiding the Everest expedition.
In 1953, it was also the first time that Tenzing officially served as the guide of the summit expedition, but unfortunately the expedition team was not able to reach the summit of Mount Everest during this period, although Tenzin Norgai was not a member of the expedition, but he also deeply regretted it, until the same year he met Edmund, the two hit it off, decided to climb Mount Everest together.
In this way, on May 26 of that year, the two of them set off together, and within two days they had climbed to the height of Mount Everest at 8504 meters, and after 6:30 on May 29, the two had a full meal and continued to sprint, when the two knew in their hearts that they had entered the final stage of the challenge.
At 11:30 a.m. on August 29, this time remembered by all Everest yearningrs is the moment when Tenzin and Edmund reached the summit together, which not only records the victory of the two of them, but also records the great moment when mankind conquered the world's first peak.
As the protagonists, Tenzin and Edmund were even more excited by this hard-won victory, and then they took out their cameras to record this historic moment. Unfortunately, due to Tenzin's lack of proficiency in using cameras, Edmund's figure could not be recorded when taking pictures.
The two began their journey home after a 15-minute stay on Everest, and after the news of their successful ascent came out, the world was shocked by this unprecedented successful challenge, and when Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ascended the throne four days later, the Queen's first knighthood was awarded to the hero of the summit, Edmund's reputation has become louder and louder in new Zealand's mountaineering community.
But since ancient times, honor and praise have always been accompanied by criticism and questioning, and some people are deeply dissatisfied with all the treatment received by Edmund after climbing Mount Everest and returning to China, and believe that the first person to climb Mount Everest should be Tenzin Noorge, and claim that Edmund is actually a fraud.
In fact, the reason why people are so calculated about who will reach the summit first is because it has extraordinary symbolic significance, but when people ask Edmund who he and Tenzin climbed first, Edmund refused to answer, saying that he and Tenzin had sworn on Mount Everest that they would not disclose the question. But such a vague answer has aroused more doubts from the outside world.
In 1988, Dan died, and then in 1999, Easmond published a book in which he acquiesced to the problem of first reaching Mount Everest, which is equivalent to 46 years later, he finally unveiled the mystery that plagued the world.
But in fact, the world should not have been so concerned about who was first and who was second with Tenzin, because they belonged to the same mountaineering team, they experienced the challenges of life and death, conquest, and we should remember their record of conquering Mount Everest, which is far more important and meaningful than the ranking.