Biographer: Legacy of Tenzing Norgay’s Historic Everest Climb
Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary (bottom) were the first to successfully reach the summit of Mount Everest. A new biography (top) profiles Tenzing’s journey through life. (Photograph copyright Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS,
Cover Art courtesy Royal Geographical Society)
Stuntman Parachutes from London Landmark for Tibet
Professional stuntman Gary Connery is led away by a police officer after base jumping from the top of Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square, central London, Friday May 9, 2003. Activists climbed the 170 foot tall column early Friday in a stunt organised by the Act for Tibet organisation, hanging up a banner of the Dalai Lama. Connery was arrested by police following the jump.
Photo by Alastair Grant