The Story of Climbing K2 Peak by Ten Sherpas
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Sometimes history does injustice to those people who deserve to be in history. Those who deserve to be remembered sometimes disappear into history. The historian has ignored or forgotten to write about many such personalities who were important at their respective times. They now become anonymous and we no longer hear about their ventures and stories.
One such important person climbed Mount Everest in 1953 and became one of the first humans to do so. Tenzing Norgay was a Nepali Sherpa who climbed World’s highest peak Everest along with Edmund Hillary. The recognition and honor that Hillary received were way more than Tenzing Norgay.
Mt. Everest
On 29 May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the peak of Mount Everest at around 11.30 a.m. They climbed 29,031 ft. of Everest to create this record. For this achievement, both should be credited with equal honor and respect but more honor and recognition went to Edmund Hillary. The Queen of Britain, Queen Elizabeth honored Hillary with the title of ‘SIR’ during the Knighthood ceremony at Buckingham Palace, London. This same title and honor could be given to Tenzing Norgay but somehow the media and history ignored him. Tenzing Norgay was a good-natured person who did not think of ignorance as their insult at that time. But later in life, he did say about the ignorance that happened to him.
After a long time, a group of mountaineers decided to take an adventure that no one has ever done before. More than 4000 people have climbed Everest. The Everest climbing adventure was no more exciting and thrilling. So, Nirmal Purja decided to climb Mount K2. Nirmal Purja is a Nepali Sherpa mountaineer. He wanted to do something adventurous that no one had ever done. So, he chose the second highest peak to climb. Now, let me tell you that in reality, it is more difficult to climb Mount K2 compared to Mount Everest. Due to the critical weather condition of Mount K2, only 367 people have climbed it. Whereas in order to climb the K2, 87 people have died during climbing.
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