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1. Victory on Everest
-James Hamsey Ullman
From Adventures in Appreciation in James Hamsey Ullman in Walter Loban, Dorothy Holmgtrom
and Luella B. Cook, Eds. 1953
Presented by: Dammar Singh Saud

4. Introduction of the Writer
 James Ramsey Ullman was an American writer and mountaineer. He was
born in New York City. He was not a high end climber, but his writing
made him an honorary member of that circle. The books he wrote were
mostly about mountaineering and geography. Wikipedia
 Born: 1907, New York, United States
 Died: July 5, 1971, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
 Parents: Alexander F. Ullman
 Movies: Third Man on the Mountain, Americans on Everest, Windom's
Way
 Education: Phillips Academy, Princeton University

5. Introduction of John Hunt
 Brigadier Henry Cecil John Hunt, Baron Hunt KG, CBE, DSO, PC was
a British Army officer who is best known as the leader of the
successful 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest. Wikipedia
 Born: June 22, 1910, Shimla, India
 Died: November 7, 1998, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
 Education: Marlborough College
 Parents: Cecil Edwin Hunt
 Children: Susan Hunt

7. Introduction of Tenzing Sherpa
 Tenzing Norgay OSN GM, born Namgyal Wangdi and often referred
to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepali Sherpa mountaineer. Wikipedia
 Born: May 29, 1914, Khumbu
 Died: May 9, 1986, Darjeeling, India
 Spouse: Dawa Phuti (m. 1935–1944)
 Children: Jamling Tenzing Norgay, Nima Norgay, More
 Grandchild: Tashi Tenzing
 Books: Tiger of the Snows: The Autobiography of Tenzing of
Everest,

9. Introduction of Edmund Hillary
 Sir Edmund Percival "Ed" Hillary KG ONZ KBE was a New
Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and
philanthropist. Wikipedia
 Born: July 20, 1919, Auckland, New Zealand
 Died: January 11, 2008, Auckland, New Zealand
 Nationality: New Zealand
 Spouse: June Mulgrew (m. 1989–2008), Louise Mary
Rose (m. 1953–1975)

12. Central Idea of the text
This essay is about the potential challenges as well as the
successful history in climbing the highest peak of the world,
Mount Everest, the glory of Nepal. After few year of dreaming
about it and seven weeks of climbing, New Zealander
Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Tenzing Norgay Sherpa
reached the top of Mount Everest at 11:30 a.m. on May 29,
1953. They are the first people to ever reach the summit of
Mount Everest.

13. Major points of the text
 The success of human beings to climb the highest peak of the
world, Mount Everest.
 The challenging climatic condition (icefalls, glaciers, avalanches,
winds of 100 miles/h, storms of snow, gray clouds, thin air, lack of
oxygen, sudden changes in climate etc.) results many climbers’
spirit or desires unfulfilled .
 There were 13 men including Edmund and Tenzing under the
guide of the British Army officer John Hunt in 1953’s expedition of
Mount Everest.
 The profession of the 13 climbers who made an attempts to climb
Everest in 1953 were as 2 army officer, 3 physicians, 3 scientists, 2

14. Major points of the text
 Though the end result was brilliant success, it was mixed, in
retrospect, with a certain irony.
 The climbers with the working team of Hillary and Tenzing
climbed up Khumbu glaciar and prepared everything that they
needed for climbing before their fifth camp.
 The climbers maintained the communication among such a big
group of people making routine, using portable radio telephone
and relays of group members.
 Working in relays, they hacked steps, strung fixed ropes, and led
the porters for the establishmentof the higher camps.

15. Major points of the text
 The climbers used the south east route up the Lhotse glacier
to Everest because it was the safe route that the second
Swiss group had used after their accident in another route.
 The climbers used the ‘closed-circuit’ apparatus (only
oxygen) and ‘open-circuit’ apparatus (mixture of oxygen and
surrounding air) during climbing up the Mt. Everest.
 When the climbers reached 28,720 feet, they saw which they
had never seen before through their eyes. It was not
encouraging but terrible experiences because of dangerous
rock, ice and dead bodies.

16. Major points of the text
 Hillary and Tenzing felt happy, proud and joy with the dream and
aspiration to reach Mt. Everest, when they became able to reach in
the peak of Mt. Everest.
 Hillary took many photographs and Tenzing unfurled a string of four
flags-Nepalese, British, Indian and United Nation’s at the top of the
highest mountain of the world.
 After staying 15 minutes at the summit of Mt. Everest, they
descended from Everest in slow motion which was the race against
time.
 Tenzing said that both of them went and climbed up Mt. Everest at
the same time because it was the victory for both countries, Nepal
and New Zealand. This message indicates the strength, unity and
brotherhood between Nepal and New Zealand, the East and West.

17. Conclusion
Victory on Everest was not only the victory of Tenzing and
Hillary or Nepal and New Zealand but also a common victory
in a common cause. For the victory belonged not only to
Hillary and Te nzing; not only the ranks of the Everesters who
fought and struggled the beckoning goal. It was a triumph for
all men, everywhere, and the fitting end to a shining chapter
in the sorry history of our century.

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