A Tasmanian boy's 1960s chance meeting with Everest 'legend' Tenzing Norgay
In 1953 Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary become the first two people to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Just under 10 years later, Norgay made his mark in another place of wild beauty — Tasmania.
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