New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese climber Tenzing Norgay were the men who ultimately planted the Union jack on the 29,000-ft peak. Above: The pair
on Everest the day before.
Mallory s body was found in 1999 just 2,000 feet from the summit of Everest, but Irvine - and the camera that the two men were said to be carrying - was not found. Pictured: The pair in 1924.
Can Pinturault finally seal the deal?
At 29 years old, Frenchman Alexi Pinturault has been recognized as the best four-event skier on the World Cup for the last half-dozen years. That he hasn’t won an overall title or a title in his favorite discipline giant slalom says a lot about the era in which he has skied. Ted Ligety thwarted his early attempts at a GS title, followed by Marcel Hirscher, who bogarted every title in sight until his retirement two years ago.
(For more insight on that, be sure to catch the coverage on the networks of NBC this weekend and through the end of the season where Steve Schlanger and I will be joined by Ted Ligety from his home in Park City, Utah, hopefully while his twins are asleep.)