In the year 1953, First men to climbed Mt. Everest, Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay
Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand beekeeper, and Tenzing Norgay, a Nepalese Sherpa, became the first persons to stand on the top of the world's highest mountain. On May 29, 1953, at 11:30 a.m., Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from Nepal, became the first explorers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which stands 29,035 feet above sea level. Hillary and another New Zealander, George Lowe, were asked to join John Hunt's 1953 British Everest Expedition after climbing with British teams in the Himalayas in 1951 and 1952.
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