Edmund Hillary Stood for Adventure

The first time a climber lays eyes on Everest, it's hard not to imagine what it was like when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay topped out on the world's highest peak shortly before noon on May 29, 1953.

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EDMUND HILLARY, short of breath in the freezing wind, took "a few more whacks of the ice ax" and surmounted the top of the world, Mount Everest, as high as anyone can aspire and still be rooted on terra firma.

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Sir Edmund Hillary, the lanky New Zealand mountaineer and explorer who with Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, won worldwide acclaim in 1953 by becoming the first to scale the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, died Friday in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Global warming is radically changing the face of Mount Everest, the sons of the men who first reached its summit 54 years ago said in an interview published Friday.

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