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A long-distance trek through Nepal’s Everest region offers lessons in Sherpa culture, rural mountain living, and humility.

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (20 July 1919–11 January 2008), was an explorer and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa (Himalayan mountain guide) Tenzing Norgay ...