“What happened, Kumar?” “We have bad accident – plane crash.” One of the most outstanding friends from Elizabeth’s years in Nepal was Sir Edmund Hillary. He was already a celebrity in Kathmandu when she first arrived because of his 1953 ascent of Everest, and it was inevitable the two would meet. She grasped the significance of his climb in several ways. First, of course, was the fact that Hillary and Tenzing Norgay had reached the summit and come back alive. Second, she understood the difficulty of the section high on the mountain, named the Hillary Step, and that by solving this particular riddle Hillary had found the key to the summit. “He forged a route using his knuckles, and God knows what all, to go up a crack and find himself at the top of it and pull himself over,” she wrote to her mother. Elizabeth understood that Hillary’s background had prepared him for this achievement: his climbing experiences, his fitness level and his ambition.
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