Named after a British surveyor, Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the Himalayas. The locals around the mountain never thought of climbing it. To them it was not an object to conquer, but one to look up at with awe. A little sense of fear keeps men humble, as the old saying goes. People do not live on mountaintops, either. The act of climbing them is like buying an object you don’t really need, or making a pass at a person you don’t really love. The locals never tried to measure the height by meters or feet. For them the peak is not an entity separate from the mountain range. They know too well that the elevation of the summit is achieved only with the presence of the whole range. In 1953, as part of a British expedition, New Zealander explorer Edmund Hillary, together with Sherpa Tenzing, became the first men to reach the summit. This would not have been possible without the support of more than 8000 other people, including sherpas and guides.
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