"The Sherpa gasped out as they mounted the slope, "Our troubles are only commencing!" Said Sir Edmund, "You're tired and nervous, relax - You'll nEverest if you're Tensing.""
— Edmund Hillary

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

Sources

Gardner E. Lewis, Poem, Neither Hilláryous Norgay (1953), quoted in The Fireside Book of Humorous Poetry edited by William Cole, 1959 (p. 388).