On May 29, 1953, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Tenzing received many honours, but he was never comfortable with his celebrity status. Instead he chose to champion the cause of the Sherpa people, live simply and work to improve their conditions. This book looks at the man and the mountain that shaped him. The author, Tenzing's grandson, provides an account of the Sherpa culture and how their lives were forever changed by the Western obsession with the world's highest mountain.