On Top of the World

The author writes that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did not have modern climbing gear like safety nets and expensive, artificial fabrics. It was colder at the top of Mount Everest for the two of them than it is for someone who attempts the climb today. Imagine that you are one of these pioneer climbers. Write a paragraph from the perspective of Hillary or Norgay as they first reach the top of Mount Everest in 1953. What does the air feel like? What is the view like? What do you say to your climbing partner as you reach the top of the tallest mountain in the world?