 Mount Everest
With mystic travel, mystic destination becomes apparent. When you speak of mystic destinations; Mount Everest comes to your mind first. Everest Peak, the highest peak in the world remained unconquered till 1953. Let’s have a quick view of man’s effort to conquer the Peak of Everest.
There can be doubt as to who first thought about the possibility to climb Mount Everest. However, Clinton Thomas Dent mentioned this idea in his book ‘The Snow Line’ published in 1885. Since then, there have been several expeditions to reach the top of the world. Experiments have been undertaken to design the route map. Expeditors have dealt with thefts, murders, missing people and death. Death zones have been discovered. Failures have manifested the importance of base camps.
First success came when Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary stood on the Peak of Everest. It was a British expedition. John Hunt was leading the team. When they were at the last base camp, Tom Bourdillion and Charles Evans were chosen to travel to the summit. As they came within 100 meters of the Everest Peak, on 26th May, 1923, they found they were too exhausted to complete the crossing.
Hillary and Norgay were chosen next and they started two days later. They reached the summit on 29th May at 11:30 in the morning, local time. They took the South Col Route. After they reached the Peak of Everest – perhaps the greatest of all mystic destinations on earth, they took pictures, and then planted a small cross and a few sweets in the ice before they started descending. Both of them say that their team effort brought the success. Tenzing revealed years later that Hillary was the first to put his feet on the summit. Thus the triumphant journey to the most mystic destination in the world was accomplished.
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