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Article: Mount Everest and the savage yeti.(50 Everest)
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- Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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A HALF CENTURY AGO humans first reached the top of the world's highest mountain--a feat that remains one of history's most daring and spectacular human accomplishments. Just before noon on May 29th, 1953, two explorer, Edmund Hillary (from New Zealand) and Tenzing Norgay (from Nepal) stood on the peak, 29,000 feet above sea level. This year, 2003, marks the 50th anniversary of the first successful climb of Mount Everest.
As the world celebrates Hillary and Norgay's historic accomplishment, a legend lingers in the shadow of Everest, almost forgotten among the fanfare. On the far side of the world, on the frozen slopes of the highest mountains on Earth, legends ...