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ATCH . , TENZING NORGAY AND SIR EDMUND HI LLARY BECAME FIRST TO STEP ONTO THE ROOF OF THE WORLD. NOW TENZING'S N, JAMLl NG, WALKS IN HIS FATHER'S SHADOW AND WE GET TO IBy James M Clash I Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary COI�OI�"r'''[] Mt Everest in 1953, they became and only humans to experience the view from the top of the world. Now, than a half century later, the rest of us can that view, too-courtesy of Tenzing's Jamling. , The hit Everest IMAX film traces three attempts at the mountain's 8,848-mete� it. One, expedition leader Jamling Norgay, ing, reached the top on 23 May 1996, just weeks after the mountain had claimed nine s in its worst disaster ever. On his way up Jamling, 33, passe frozen corpses of Scott Fischer and Rob Hall of the ill-fated expeditions. "It was soberl 1 and sad," reflects Jamling today. "My fathe encouraged me to climb Everest. Having up there himself, he knew the dangers." Yes, there are still plenty of dangers though it's become chic to climb it, one i ry six who reaches Everest's top dies trying. Jamling grew up in Darjeeling. India, fourth of six kids, in the shadow of his legend. His dad was always lOW-key Everest achievement. uWe were r �l:!elcted in our town, but not celebrities,w says Jamling. J The youngster showed an early pen chant for heights. Jamling, at age six, trekked up Sikkim's 5,490-plus-meter BC Roy-a training mountain-with his father, the only peak the two ever climbed together. Because of his father's prominence, Jamling was able to attend an American school, Wisconsin's o strong in my life," says Jamling, describing his condition as he inched closer to the top. "It was as if my father's spirit was with me. " As the movie peaks, we are treated to footage of Jamling-a highly spiritual man-plac ing photos of his parents and the Dalai Lama in Northland College-rare for poor natIVe Sherpa people who often become porters on dangerous Himalayan expeditions just to feed their families. When his father died in 1986. Jamling started thinking seriously about Everest. but he didn't have the funding. When Everest producer Greg MacGillivray apptoached him in 1995. he jumped at the chance. While filming, Jamling thought er, trying to picture what often about his he had gone thr h in the early days. "It was much harder ba route. He and Ei ;" he says. "There was no n't even know if the summit was achievable. any had failed." Not only ,at, but the climbing equip ment and clothi!)@ were primitive by today's stan dards, and medical knowledge about the high-alti tude killers cerebral and pulmonary edema was nonexistent. team approached the Balcony On their summit day, as Jamling's -at 8,230 meters, Hillary and his father's last camp in 1953- Jamling looked for remnants but, of course, there was nothing but snow and ice. "I have never felt the pristine snow of the summit. "I could feel my father with me, looking over my shoulder, nodding approval," he smiles. Also with him were Ed Viesturs, 38, a powerful mountaineer on his quest to become the first American to climb the world's fourteen B,OOO-meter peaks without supplemental oxy gen, and Araceli Segarra, 26, the first Spanish woman to make it to Everest's top. Everest is the first positive look at the peak since the much-publicized disaster two years ago. Emmy award-winning director David Breashears is a four-time Everest summiteer him self (he took Richard Bass of "Seven Summits " fame to the top in 1985). He was saddled with carrying a 42-pound, separate pieces to assembling it and "Filming Everest Everest," B camera-in five the weight-then -30°F weather. than climbing 66