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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Bino on May 29, 2013, 09:28:48 AM

Title: Mount Everest Ascent 60th Anniversary
Post by: Bino on May 29, 2013, 09:28:48 AM

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.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Edmund_Hillary_%26_Sherpa_Tenzing.jpg/220px-Edmund_Hillary_%26_Sherpa_Tenzing.jpg)
(photo circa 1971)

Title: Re: Mount Everest Ascent 60th Anniversary
Post by: saggs on May 29, 2013, 10:22:09 AM

Quote from: Bino on May 29, 2013, 09:28:48 AM

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.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Edmund_Hillary_%26_Sherpa_Tenzing.jpg/220px-Edmund_Hillary_%26_Sherpa_Tenzing.jpg)
(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.  :old:

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

Title: Re: Mount Everest Ascent 60th Anniversary
Post by: Golfer on May 29, 2013, 03:15:26 PM

If they could only find that damn camera.

Title: Re: Mount Everest Ascent 60th Anniversary
Post by: sunfan1121 on May 29, 2013, 04:32:43 PM

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