Indian flag that reached the top of Mt. Everest with Tenzing Norgay

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Indian flag that reached the top of Mt. Everest with Tensing Norgay, gift from Sir Edmund Hillary on December 4, 1977 at Gift Museum at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Viewer Algernon Huxley tells us that "There were 4 flags affixed to the shaft of Tenzing Norgay's ice-axe on the ascent of Everest in May 1953, from top to bottom: The United Nations flag, the British Union Jack, the flag of Nepal AND that of India. Sir Edmund Hillary took the famous photo of Tenzing Norgay at the summit but the flags of Nepal and India were not readily visible due the camera angle and the violent winds. Interestingly, Sir Hillary, a New Zealander didn't hoist the N.Z. flag, but this was because Sir John Hunt (a Brit) had financed the Everest expedition." Tenzing Norgay OSN GM (late May 1914 -- 9 May 1986) born Namgyal