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A Man Who Raced to Tell the World That Mount Everest Had Been Climbed
When Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made history by reaching the summit, a courier named Ten Tsewang Sherpa ran 200 miles to Kathmandu to deliver the news. He died a few weeks later. His story has never been told—until now.
(Ang Pemba Sherpa)Ang Pemba in Kathmandu, waiting to take off for a ride to Namche Bazaar (Photo: Peter Frick-Wright)Namche from above (Photo: Ang Pemba Sherpa) (Ang Pemba Sherpa)Kongde Ri, a 20,299-foot peak near Namche (Photo: Ang Pemba Sherpa)Om Adhikari, a Nepali competitor in the Everest Marathon (Photo: Peter Frick-Wright) The author entering a park in the village of Khunde (Photo: Ang Pemba Sherpa)Ang Pemba stacking stones on a stupa near the village of Deboche (Photo: Ang Pemba Sherpa)
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