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The Adventures of a Sherpa Guide
Colonel John Hunt and his team board the SS Strathieden at Tilbury in Essex, bound for India. On the 5th of March, 1953, he is introduced to a group of Sherpa Guides in the Garden of the British Embassy compound. Their leader is Tenzing Norgi who has already climbed higher than any other human on Earth. But Tenzing has recently suffered from malaria, and two attempts to reach the summit in 1952 have taken their toll. He intends to walk himself fit on the long march from Kathmandu to the mountain.
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