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(05-21-2018, 11:35 AM)Hank Knight Wrote: One of the more interesting ones is the crest of Tenzing Norgay, the sherpa who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on the first successful summit of Mt. Everest in 1953. Norgay's crest is an ice axe on a plain white field.
From what I've understood of the support the sherpas offered climbers, "accompanied" is an understatement.  Good on the (sometimes ethnically self-centered) British for honoring him.  And what a perfect crest.
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