devashish_paul wrote:
It almost feels like Bannister read about Tenzing hauling Hillary through the now famous "Hillary Step" (no one really knows who hauled who, but I am thinking the Nepalese local was likely not the "haulee") the year before and thinking, "hey, I am close to the running Everest summit let me get some dudes to draft off of who will behave themselves and stay on pace (vs trying to draft Landy who would do everything stupid to not let Bannister draft, but would overcook himself in the process) and do on the track what Hillary did on Everest and then we can use the British media to market this to death!!!Interestingly enough, while the WR for the mile has been going down, Mt. Everest/Chomolungma has been getting taller [about 2 feet since 1953]
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