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  1. Mar 3, 2013 · ADVENTURE. ARTICLE. Everest 1953: First Footsteps - Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. National Geographic revisits the 1953 British summit to Everest when the first people stood atop...

  2. Edmund Hillary. Sir Edmund Percival Hillary KG ONZ KBE (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.

  3. Jul 20, 1998 · Edmund Hillary (born July 20, 1919, Auckland, New Zealand—died January 11, 2008, Auckland) was a New Zealand mountain climber and Antarctic explorer who, with the Nepali-Indian mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest (29,035 feet [8,850 meters]; see Researcher’s Note: Height of Mount Everest), the ...

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  4. Sir Edmund Hillary greets Tenzing Norgay, c. 1971. They spent only about 15 minutes at the summit. Hillary took the famous photo of Norgay posing with his ice-axe, but since Norgay had never used a camera, Hillary's ascent went unrecorded.

  5. Mar 1, 2008 · On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary, a 33-year-old beekeeper from New Zealand and his Nepalese-born guide Tenzing Norgay, stood at the top of Everest for the first time in history. The pair...

  6. Apr 2, 2014 · 20th-century explorer and mountaineer Edmund Hillary was the first to reach the peak of Mount Everest, along with fellow climber Tenzing Norgay. Updated: Apr 15, 2021.

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  8. Nov 24, 2009 · At 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal, become the first known explorers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which at 29,035...

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