Conquering Everest The Lives Of Edmund Hillary And Tenzing Norgay

In this book, the author allows the characters, Norgay and Hillary to narrate the sequence of events by themselves. The biography of the two mountain climbers has been told in the form of a dialogue between the two men. For the first half of the book, the two men tell each other about their lives and the circumstances which have led them to where they are. This exchange of life histories takes place up until before they reach the Everest base camp in 1953. Tenzing tells his story of being a member of a poor Tibetan immigrant family in Nepal and his childhood dream of travelling the world. Edmund Hillary, a beekeeper in New Zealand, had similar dreams of a life of adventure. Both men meet on this historic adventure to scale to world’s highest peak, which stretches beyond the clouds in the sky.