| Of the range's 12 peaks, Mount Saskatchewan is the only one that has yet to be summited. |
| But in 1958 he got the chance to attend the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling, run at the time by Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who summited Everest with Hillary. |
| The journalist, who summited with Ang Dorjee's group, wrote a best-seller about the experience. |
| At the start of the spring season that year, fewer than 200 individuals had summited Everest. |
| However, by the 2003 season, a half century after the historic climb by Hillary and Tenzing, that number exceeded 1,200, and more than 200 climbers had summited Everest two or more times. |
| The greater part of these hills have the rounded and smooth top, or are tabularly summited. |
