Tenzing later wrote: "On the top of the rock cliff we rested again. Certainly, after the climb up the gap we were both a bit breathless, but after some slow pulls at the oxygen I am feeling fine.

Tenzing's words gradually carry him up Everest ... waited all my life my mountain did not seem to me a lifeless thing of rock and ice, but warm and friendly and living." Liesl Clark, NOVA ...

Jim Clash writes about extreme adventure and classic rock. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made history by reaching the top of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953 - and returned to tell the ...