Everest attempt by Tensing

Press, 23 January 1988, Page 37

Everest attempt by Tensing

NZPA Hong Kong The widow of Tensing Norgay has written to Sir Edmund Hillary telling him that her son intends to take part in an Everest expedition this year. Sir Edmund said he had been advised that Norbu Tensing, aged 25, a Connecticut travel agent, intended to participate in 4he thirtieth anniversary Everest ’BB expedition.

Sir Edmund’s son, Peter, made an attempt on Everest late last year but is not expected to participate in the anniversary expedition. Tensing Norgay and Sir Edmund, New Zealand’s High Commissioner to India, reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953. Sir Edmund said in an interview with NZPA that

Lord Hunt, leader of the first successful Everest expedition, had also organised a thirtieth anniversary reunion to mark the event. “I’ll be in Wales for the reunion ... we’ll be meeting in the area where a lot of the official training of the group was done.” Sir Edmund said George Lowe, the other New Zealand member of

the expedition, also intended to attend the reunion. “It’s five years since our last major reunion. None of us are getting any younger. I think John Hunt feels the thirtieth anniversary has some special significance,” Sir Edmund said. Tensing Norgay died in May, 1986.