Just to clear up confusion, they are on everest in this picture, but not at the summit. Only Hillary took a picture of Tenzing at the summit, he refused to have his own picture taken.
According to this Swedish source, they are about to start the climb to camp 9, which was their last camp before heading for the summit.
The picture is taken at camp 8, at the South Col, which is at about 8000 meters. The previous summit attempt by Evans and Bourdillon failed, so Hillary and Tenzing wanted to set a higher camp and try to get to the summit from there.
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November 6, 2014 | Categories: History, Human History, Images of History, Mountains, Photography, Polar Explorers, The Drama Of It All | Tags: Edmund Hillary, Everest, Hillary, Mountain, Mountaineer, Mountaineering, Mt. Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary, summit attempt, Tenzing, Tenzing Norgay | Leave a comment
This was photo was chosen to be included on the Golden Record on Voyager 1 and 2.
Gaston Rébuffat was actually an instructor at a military school of mountaineering run by the 27th mountain infantry. In any case, the French government clearly appreciated his contribution to history because it awarded him the Légion d’honneur in 1984.
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Link to original source from Central Library of Zurich.
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January 26, 2014 | Categories: History, Photography, Polar Explorers | Tags: 1897, Central Library of Zurich, Glacier, History, Mountain, Mountaineer, Mountaineering, Ortler range, Photo, Photography, Tirol, Weird | Leave a comment
Link to original source from the Central Library of Zurich.
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January 25, 2014 | Categories: History, Photography, Polar Explorers, Pursuit of Happiness, Stunt Queens, The Drama Of It All, Weird | Tags: Alpine, alps, Aosta Valley, Ascension d'un sérac, Ascent of a glacial column, cold, Death, Europe, France, Freeze, French, Frozen, glacial column, Glacier, Graian Alps, Haute-Savoie, highest mountain, History, Ice, Italy, MONEY, Mont Blanc, Monte Bianco, Mount Blanc, Mountain, Photo, Photography, Polar, Weird, White Mountain | Leave a comment
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Link to original source from Central Library of Zurich.
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