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| Kathmandu, Saturday May 24, 2003 Jestha 10, 2060. |
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Truth was told
This has reference to the news report
"Hillary recalls how Tenzing saved him" that you received from
New Delhi and was published in the The Kathmandu Post dated 21st May. It says there was
bad blood between Hillary and Tenzing’s family as Sir Edmund revealed after Tenzing
died in 1986 that it was he who reached the summit of Everest first. Does this mean that
nobody in Tenzing’s family had read his autobiography "Man of Everest"
which was published in 1955? In paragraph two, page 268 of his book Tenzing has said
"Hillary stepped on top first. And I stepped up after him." He goes on to say
"Now the truth is told. And I am ready to be judged by it." Honest Tenzing
revealed the fact, while honorable Hillary would not talk about it as they had made a pact
not to say who climbed up first. Only a great man like Hillary would have made such a pact
and hidden the fact that he was the first man to be atop Everest. The whole idea was to
avoid bad feeling between Asians and the white
people.
The last paragraph of the news report makes
no sense as Tenzing had already revealed the truth long before he died.
Dinesh Rai
Naxal, Kathmandu |
