Quote #7

Tenzing had been waiting patiently, but now, at my request, he unfurled the flags wrapped around his ice-ax and standing at the summit, held them above his head. Clad in all his bulky equipment and with the flags flapping furiously in the wind, he made a dramatic picture, and the thought drifted through my mind that this photograph should be a good one if it came out at all. I didn't worry about getting Tenzing to take a photograph of me - as far as I knew, he had never taken a photograph before, and the summit of Everest was hardly the place to show him how.

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