Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Only One Man Knows Who Climbed Everest First and We Can't Find Him" video.

There's also that notepad they found on his body. Since he'd apparently been writing entries on it as he went up the mountain but didn't write anything about reaching the summit, that leaves two possibilities. Either he fell to his death before getting to the top, or the sun was already down when he got to the top and thus too dark too see to write.
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