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“TECHNICAL POINT OF NO CONSEQUENCE” (Neto Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 22. It -was a great pity that a controversy had sprung up over the question of who first reached the summit of Mount Everest, said Mr L. V. Bryant, headmaster of the Pukekohe High and a member of Mr Eric Shipton’s 1935 expedition to Everest, tonight. He added: “The glorious fact Wthat it has been climbed. The technical point as to who actually set foot on the top first is of no consequence whatsoever. A mountaineering party climbs as a team—on one rope—and the question as to who sets foot first on the summit is never raised in mountaineering circles. It is a pity that such inconsequential details threaten to detract from the merit of such a magnificent performance.” Mr Bryant said that Sir Edmund Hillary was quite right when he said that neither Tensing nor himself would have got to the top without the othen.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27073, 23 June 1953, Page 10
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