A Man Who Raced to Tell the World That Mount Everest Had Been Climbed(outsideonline.com) |
A Man Who Raced to Tell the World That Mount Everest Had Been Climbed(outsideonline.com) |
>Snow conditions bad stop advanced base abandoned yesterday stop awaiting improvement
Wikipedia[1] has the breakdown, as well as the rest of the code for other individuals[2]:
>Snow conditions bad" was the agreed code to signify that the summit had been reached; "advance base abandoned" referred to Hillary and "awaiting improvement" referred to Tenzing.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_British_Mount_Everest_exp...
2:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_British_Mount_Everest_exp...
The first Canadians to win a anything were the "Paris crew" who won a regatta days after the constitution. Canada started to be represented in the Olympic Games in 1900.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/paris-crew
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_at_the_1900_Summer_Olym...
If Canada counts as not the Crown, then so does NZ.
It's a major oversight for an article on this subject.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Westminster_1931
>>Most of the remaining colonies in North America – everything north of the United States with the exception of Newfoundland – were merged into a federal polity known as "Canada" in the late 1860s and early 1870s. Canada was termed a "dominion", a term previously used in slightly different contexts in English history, and granted a broad array of powers between the federal government and the provincial governments. Australia was similarly deemed a dominion when it federated in 1901, as were Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the Irish Free State in the first decades of the 20th century.
>> No Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed after the commencement of this Act shall extend, or be deemed to extend, to a Dominion as part of the law of that Dominion, unless it is expressly declared in that Act that that Dominion has requested, and consented to, the enactment thereof.
In that language was/is Canadian independence from britain.
Unlike, say the US, independence for the former Dominions isn't something you can pin point to one event. It is mostly a slow evolution of the legal environment and cultural separation over the course of more than a century. (In NZ's case you could argue that it took 163 years, or is not done yet because reasons.)
The actual difference between the Canadian "expedition" and the one that included Hillary is that the Canadian one was just some dude. One guy that wanted to try his luck, whereas the British one was organised (and I believe paid for) in Britain. It just happened to have a Kiwi on it.
It's full of literal shit (including the smell) and empty oxygen bottles due to too many tourists and everyday it gets worse.
It's like the highest open defecation place in the world.
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/climbing/pea...
though there are some initiatives to solve that: https://www.mensjournal.com/pursuits/mountaineering-report/t...
I agree that the current state of Everest is an embarrassment. But that doesn't change the fact that it's the tallest mountain in the world, and the efforts (both successful and failed) to be the first to summit were audacious and inspiring to many people. Stories like the one in the OP should not be suppressed just because decades later the mountain has turned into a pile of shit.
Management of Mt Everest falls under the Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Civil Aviation, and each Minister lasts barely a year because Nepali politics is extremely unstable because Ministries are given to critical MPs who can make or break a government.
Expect more permits to be issued and way less support and cleaning especially because Nepal has some systemic economic issues right now.
It is at its worst when used to pile-on a speaker or post for uttering some perceived slight, or daring to suggest an unpopular idea or political view. It is bad for open discourse, even open society, and needs to stop.