▲ 0 ▼ Trivia Question: What achievement did this person perform to become well known? (lemdro.id) submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by 933k@lemdro.id to c/pics@lemmy.world 5 comments fedilink hide all child comments Trivia Question: What achievement did this person perform to become well known?
[+] spittingimage@lemmy.world -9 points 3 years ago* (1 child) spoilerThat's Sir Edmund Hillary. He and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first two people to reach the peak of Mount Everest. The first words ever spoken at the highest point of the world were "We've knocked the bastard off!" permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) I think those were the first words on the peak to be recorded by a Western explorer. Who's to say some local didn't climb the mountain in any of the years before, got there, and was like "Well, that's a nice view but why did I bother doing this again?" and went back down? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] spittingimage@lemmy.world -8 points 3 years ago (1 child) Until that point, they wouldn't have had access to bottled oxygen. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) The locals who've been exposed to the prevailing conditions(extreme cold, lower oxygen saturation) their whole life, and who passed through the evolutionary gauntlet of the region (higher chance of genetic material with weaker lung capacities to die out), might have been hardier than the wave of rich tourists who later conquered the peak. All this is speculation though, based on the fact that people that live in such conditions their whole life DO have demonstrably better adaptations to do so. I don't know if it's enough to survive the conditions at the peak though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] spittingimage@lemmy.world -6 points 3 years ago Tenzing Norgay was a local. He still needed the oxygen. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) I think those were the first words on the peak to be recorded by a Western explorer. Who's to say some local didn't climb the mountain in any of the years before, got there, and was like "Well, that's a nice view but why did I bother doing this again?" and went back down? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] spittingimage@lemmy.world -8 points 3 years ago (1 child) Until that point, they wouldn't have had access to bottled oxygen. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) The locals who've been exposed to the prevailing conditions(extreme cold, lower oxygen saturation) their whole life, and who passed through the evolutionary gauntlet of the region (higher chance of genetic material with weaker lung capacities to die out), might have been hardier than the wave of rich tourists who later conquered the peak. All this is speculation though, based on the fact that people that live in such conditions their whole life DO have demonstrably better adaptations to do so. I don't know if it's enough to survive the conditions at the peak though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] spittingimage@lemmy.world -6 points 3 years ago Tenzing Norgay was a local. He still needed the oxygen. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] spittingimage@lemmy.world -8 points 3 years ago (1 child) Until that point, they wouldn't have had access to bottled oxygen. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) The locals who've been exposed to the prevailing conditions(extreme cold, lower oxygen saturation) their whole life, and who passed through the evolutionary gauntlet of the region (higher chance of genetic material with weaker lung capacities to die out), might have been hardier than the wave of rich tourists who later conquered the peak. All this is speculation though, based on the fact that people that live in such conditions their whole life DO have demonstrably better adaptations to do so. I don't know if it's enough to survive the conditions at the peak though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] spittingimage@lemmy.world -6 points 3 years ago Tenzing Norgay was a local. He still needed the oxygen. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) The locals who've been exposed to the prevailing conditions(extreme cold, lower oxygen saturation) their whole life, and who passed through the evolutionary gauntlet of the region (higher chance of genetic material with weaker lung capacities to die out), might have been hardier than the wave of rich tourists who later conquered the peak. All this is speculation though, based on the fact that people that live in such conditions their whole life DO have demonstrably better adaptations to do so. I don't know if it's enough to survive the conditions at the peak though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] spittingimage@lemmy.world -6 points 3 years ago Tenzing Norgay was a local. He still needed the oxygen. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] spittingimage@lemmy.world -6 points 3 years ago Tenzing Norgay was a local. He still needed the oxygen. permalink fedilink source parent
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