You are correct, and not let us forget that the British Expedition to climb Mt. Everest was led by John Hunt and 10 other British climbers, 2 New Zealanders and 2 Sherpas. There was also 150 Nepalese porters who helped to carry the equipment up to the lower stages. Hillary and Norgay were lucky enough to be given the OK for the final assault after the high base camps had been set up by other climbers. Not enough thanks was given to all those involved as the 'Stars' of the show have kept very quiet.
Hillary and Norgay made a pact to not tell anyone who actually summited first. Many years later, Norgay revealed in his book it was, in fact, Hillary who stepped on the summit first. But of course they did it together.
The point of the comment was to explain that New Zealand is a not surprising entry on this list, not to give credit to everyone who made the climb. Norgay is entirely irrelevant here.
It's fashionable now to cram previously-forgotten minorities into every conversation, like some sort of verbal tic: if there's a mention of Edmund Hillary, the virtue signalers rush to bring up Tenzig Norgay, if Watson and Crick come up we must immediately hear of Rosalind Franklin, etc. Norgay, Franklin, and (many of) the rest of them are certainly worth knowing about in their context, but the effort to dilute all historical claims of great men is absurd. Norgay wasn't a New Zealander; bringing him up here is, at best, thoughtless.
No one is trying to be fashionable here. Just giving credit where credit is due in the discussion about the first person to summit Everest (which was two people: Hillary and Norgay).
I’m going to be controversial here… I don’t care who got up the mountain first. It’s a stupid feat that accomplished nothing important. Hilary was not a great man… he had hundreds of people help him walk up a tall hill, do nothing of consequence, and walk back down again.
Many more mountains in NZ than Australia (and much higher - there are well over 100 mountains in NZ higher than Australia's highest mountain) so maybe more interest in mountain climbing.
Not sure about Russia, but why do you expect Canada be higher? Canada is comparable to the United States in terms of all of the factors that may influence mountain climbing (landscape, wealth, geographic size, etc.) but it has a way smaller population, so it's completely expected for it to have way fewer Mt. Everest climbers than the US. As a matter of fact, if you measured per capita (although measuring something like this per capita might be silly), Canada would be ahead of America.
Australia, Mexico, and Poland were the ones that surprised me the most. Wonder why Austria and Switzerland were less frequently answered since they are literally Alpine countries. Same with Norway, they have a lot of mountains. Not as tall as Everest of course, but they are used to mountain climbing.
It's fashionable now to cram previously-forgotten minorities into every conversation, like some sort of verbal tic: if there's a mention of Edmund Hillary, the virtue signalers rush to bring up Tenzig Norgay, if Watson and Crick come up we must immediately hear of Rosalind Franklin, etc. Norgay, Franklin, and (many of) the rest of them are certainly worth knowing about in their context, but the effort to dilute all historical claims of great men is absurd. Norgay wasn't a New Zealander; bringing him up here is, at best, thoughtless.
It appeared as China.
Please fix this.