Just one more thing: Teamwork that pays off - Dexter H Faulkner - November 18, 1985

Dexter H Faulkner

It was about 11:30 a.m., May 29, 1953. Nearly six-miles above sea level, in the remote reaches of Nepal, two men had done what no human beings had done before. They had climbed to the summit of Mt. Everest, at 29,028 feet the highest mountain peak in the world! Sir Edmund Hillary, from New Zeal and, and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa tribesman, had made history, and they had done it as a team. Norgay described what happened when the two men reached the top of the world's highest mountain: "What we did first was what all climbers do when they reach the top of their mountain. We shook hands. But this was not enough for Mt. Everest. I waved my arms in the air and threw them around Hillary, and we thumped each other on the back until, even with the oxygen systems; we were almost breathless." Neither man wanted to claim credit for having been the first to set foot on the summit, and for some time both refused to say. It had been a team effort. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library