When newspapers, radio stations, and television news programs reported the first successful summit of Mt. Everest on May 29th, 1953, Edmund “Ed” Hilary, a New Zealand member of a spring expedition organized by the British, received prime, sometimes sole credit for arguably one of the greatest accomplishments in recorded human history. A knighthood followed Hilary’s success. The truth, of course, was far more complicated than contemporary accounts showed. Hilary wasn’t alone. He was part of a well-funded, 400-member strong expedition. He wasn’t even a member of the first team attempting to summit Mt. Everest that spring. He was, along with Tenzing Norgay, a 20-year mountaineering veteran, one of two, not one of one. Western accounts, however, repeatedly emphasized Hilary’s feat at the...
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