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| | Tenzing Norgay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Unlike most of his fellow Sherpas of the time for whom, by and large, climbing was just a challenging way of making a living, Tenzing desperately wanted to get to the summit of Mt. Everest and devoted most of his life to this goal. |
 | | When World War II put an end to large, official Everest expeditions, he allowed himself to be persuaded to join Earl Denman in sneaking secretly through Tibet to make what he knew was a wild and unlikely effort to reach the summit. |
 | | The British no longer had a monopoly on Everest attempts, and in 1952 Tenzing was invited to join the Swiss, not just as a Sherpa crew member but as a fellow climber, on their two attempts to be first on the summit. |
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