Dear family and friends we have arrived at mount Everest this will be my only letter until I get back down mount everest. I’m very excited to get to the top. We have been preparing for days, I am going with a man named Tenzing Norgay. He had been very up lifting when he first got here but now he is very worried and multiple times he has tried to back out of this. I thought of letting him go but then I thought of the cold nights up there that I know is going to happen. Do I want to be alone? Or do I want to drag him up that huge mountain? It’s a hard choice but I don’t want to be alone. Do you want to share the fame, yes of course, but do I want more weight? What if I brought someone else up the mountain? Oh no, someone mentioned the fame and glory and now Tenzing wants so badly to get to the top. This was a bad idea but no backing out now.
I’m scared to do this but I want to make you proud. I’m scared to do this alone but the guy that I am going up the mountain with might pull me down at any moment to get more fame. Even though I am scared I will fight to make you proud.
When you get this letter I will be up the mountain and unreachable but send a letter for when I get down. This letter will go far and travel the world like I did. If I die, keep this letter forever because it will be the last you hear of me.
I will love you forever whether or not I die. I hope you will always love me too.
Gosh writing those words makes me feel like I’m about to die but I won’t I’m sure.
This is my idea of what it might have been for Sir Edmond Hillary just before he climbed mount Everest.