Marking the Summer Olympics in 2008, Tashi Tsering holds the Olympic torch on Qomolangma's summit. In 2005, he guided a man from Denmark who was attempting to climb Qomolangma without oxygen. The man's condition turned critical at 8,550 meters, about 300 meters below the summit, and Tatse offered some oxygen to help him reach the top. "I could climb Qomolangma …
Tashi Tsering, on the first time he reached the summit in 2005 PEAK OF DANGER Mountain weather can change in a heartbeat, shifting as if by the will of some mercurial diety. "Sometimes you can hardly stand up in the wind," Tatse said. "After a big sound, a terrible roar, the earth trembled under my feet and I saw a …
