Everest: The Remarkable Story of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

Everest: The Remarkable Story of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
Author: Alexandra Stewart
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2020-02-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1547601604

In the late morning of May 29, 1953, the sun was shining brightly and a gentle breeze was blowing on the highest elevation of the world--and two men were there to witness it for the first time ever. Their names were Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, and they had ascended Everest. This is the breathtaking story of how two very different, yet equally determined, men battled frost-biting temperatures, tumbling ice rocks, powerful winds, and death-defying ridges to reach the top of the world's highest mountain. Combining fresh and contemporary illustrations by Joe Todd-Stanton with Alexandra Stewart's captivating writing, this unique narrative tells the story of how Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made their mark on the world from birth right up to their final days and the impact they've had on Nepal today.

Conquering Everest: The Lives of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

Conquering Everest: The Lives of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
Author: Lewis Helfand
Publisher: Campfire
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2011-08-16
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 9380741243

Tenzing Norgay was the son of poor Tibetan immigrants living in Nepal. He longed to see the world but was told he could aspire to be little more than a servant. Edmund Hillary was a humble beekeeper from New Zealand, who spent his youth dreaming of adventures he could never hope to experience. And Everest was the ultimate adventure. The mountain's peak is the highest point on Earth, stretching beyond the clouds. So dangerous and challenging, Everest had never been successfully climbed and many had died trying. In 1953, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary joined a team of explorers determined to reach its top. Alone at the top of the world with their oxygen running low, they faced brutal elements and new dangers at every turn. And they were armed with little more than their courage, determination, and a belief in each other. But would that be enough to achieve the impossible, what no man had done before?

View from the Summit

View from the Summit
Author: Edmund Hillary
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2000-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0743400674

In a memoir by the first man to reach the peak of Everest, Hillary discusses the adventures that shaped his life, from the South Pole to the Ganges River.

The Good News is the Bad News is Wrong

The Good News is the Bad News is Wrong
Author: Ben J. Wattenberg
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
Total Pages: 438
Release: 1985
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780671606411

In search of the truth about the American condition, the author examines the latest social, economic, attitudinal, and demographic data.

Hillary & Tenzing

Hillary & Tenzing
Author:
Publisher: PBS
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Biographical films
ISBN: 9780780641358

Documents the first successful climb to reach the summit of Mt. Everest including actual footage of the climb.

The Ascent of Everest

The Ascent of Everest
Author: John Hunt Baron Hunt
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1993
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780898863611

Expedition leader John Hunt's account of the first ascent of Mount Everest's summit in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.

High Adventure

High Adventure
Author: Edmund Hillary
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2003
Genre: Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
ISBN: 9780747566960

Everest: forbidding, exhilarating, unconquerable. All courageous attempts by man to reach its summit by heading up the northern side from Tibet had failed. But in 1953 Edmund Hillary joined an expedition which found a new route up Everest. This is his account of the treacherous journey.

Tiger of the Snows

Tiger of the Snows
Author: Robert Burleigh
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2014-10-21
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1481428411

Growing up at the foot of Mount Everest, a Sherpa boy named Tenzing Norgay dreamed about one day being the first to climb the giant in his backyard. For years he practiced, carrying loads of rocks in his backpack to grow stronger, prowling the mountain's lower levels; later, carrying loads of equipment for other adventurers, but always, always, wanting to climb himself. But his dream never seemed possible until he met Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand beekeeper who shared Tenzing's dream. By working together every step of the way, two men from entirely different backgrounds climbed into the clouds, to the peak of Mount Everest. However, as the years passed, only Hilary's name lived on in the history books while, in the west, Norgay's was mostly forgotten. In Tiger of the Snows, Robert Burleigh introduces young readers to one of the Far East's greatest heroes and tells the long-neglected story of a litle boy with an unimaginable dream, who refused to be daunted by the world's most daunting mountain, and who came to be known as the tiger of the snows. Caldecott winner Ed Young brings Everest to life with hauntingly, subtly beautiful animal imageries and resplendent colors, capturing the breathtaking grandeur and life force of the mountain the Nepalese call Mother Goddess of the Earth.

Touching My Father's Soul

Touching My Father's Soul
Author: Jamling T. Norgay
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2002-05-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0062516884

In a story of Everest unlike any told before, Jamling Tenzing Norgay gives us an insider's view of the Sherpa world. As Climbing Leader of the famed 1996 Everest IMAX expedition led by David Breashears, Jamling Norgay was able to follow in the footsteps of his legendary mountaineer father, Tenzing Norgay, who with Sir Edmund Hillary was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in 1953. Jamling Norgay interweaves the story of his own ascent during the infamous May 1996 Mount Everest disaster with little-known stories from his father's historic climb and the spiritual life of the Sherpas, revealing a fascinating and profound world that few -- even many who have made it to the top -- have ever seen.

Tenzing

Tenzing
Author: Ed Douglas
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

In 1953, Tenzing Norgay was at the heart of the successful British Everest expedition as leader of the Sherpas whose hard work brought victory and as one of the two lead climbers to reach the top. But behind Tenzing’s radiant smile is an untold story of courage, tragedy, and ambition, of a man who overcame incredible odds just to reach the bottom of the mountain. Born in a sacred Tibetan valley in the shadow of Everest, Tenzing’s long journey led him from life as an illiterate yak herder to become the friend of Nehru, feted by monarchs and presidents all over the world. Set against the backdrop of one of the greatest chapters in the history of exploration, Tenzing: Hero of Everest recounts the jubilant moments at the summit: “Tenzing was effusive, putting an arm around Hillary’s shoulders, and thumping him on the back with infectious delight. Hillary joined in.... Now all below them...the valleys where Tenzing had grown up. ‘It was such a sight as I had never seen before,’ he said, ‘and would never see again—wild, wonderful, and terrible. But terror was not what I felt. I loved the mountains too well for that. I loved Everest too well.’” Mountaineering historian Ed Douglas reveals for the first time Tenzing’s long climb from obscurity. Drawing on extensive interviews with family members, climbing partners, and members of the Sherpa community in Darjeeling and Nepal, the book chronicles his rise to fame and the aftermath of his triumph. The result is a wealth of new material about a man who made his people famous and whose life was the stuff of legend.