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dated May, 29, 1953: Tenzing may be in first team

From Ralph Izzard in Kathmandu: "We are still without news of the first and second attempts on Everest due on the 23rd and 24th. Lack of news seems ominous. Winds are now freshening over Nepal, and clouds building up. But chances of another attempt in a spell of fair weather are still great. Now that the first attempt has probably been made, I hazard a guess that Sherpa Tenzing was in the first team. He is the only man in the present expedition with accurate knowledge of the last one thousand feet to the peak. With him perhaps was young jet engineer Tom Bourdillon who, with his father Dr. R. B. Bourdillon, developed the oxygen equipment."

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