When Hillary and Tensing reached the summit of Evererst on the eve of Coronation Day in 1953, they did more than conquer the highest of the world's mountains. They had suceeded in the last great enterprise left to man in the exploration of his own world. They had brought to a suberb ending one of the finest of all the stories of man's struggle to "make him self supreme over even the mightiest of what is material..."