Mount Everest Ascent 60th Anniversary

[Bino]

Sixty years ago today, on May 29, 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest.


(photo circa 1971)

[saggs]

Sixty years ago today, on May 29, 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

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(photo circa 1971)

I believe you need the qualifier "and survived" because of course there is a very good chance that Mallory and Irvine summited 29 yrs earlier. 

Just a peeve of mine as a George Mallory fan, no disrespect to Hillary and Norgay intended.

[Golfer]

If they could only find that damn camera.

[sunfan1121]

This is one of those rare events in history where westerners really are the first.