In states that had not banned marriage below the age of majority, these payments, however, allowed for the potential exploitation of ladies in the type of child marriages. Meanwhile, we’re equally thrilled with a number of legislative wins that we supported on the state stage, some of which even occurred during the lockdown! Five states—Vermont, Wyoming, Kentucky, Massachusetts and Idaho—passed legal guidelines to stop female genital mutilation.
Edmund Hillary
In 1978 Norgay based Tenzing Norgay Adventures, an organization providing trekking adventures within the Himalayas. As of 2021, the company was run by his son Jamling Tenzing Norgay, who himself reached the summit of Everest in 1996. In January 1975, with permission of the King of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, Norgay served as sirdar for the first American tourist celebration allowed into the country. Brought together by an organization then called Mountain Travel (now referred to as Mountain Travel-Sobek), the group first met Norgay in India before starting the trek. The official trek began in Paro, northern Bhutan and included a visit to Tiger’s Nest , the traditional Buddhist monastery, before returning to India via Nepal and Sikkim.