Everest: 60 years since summit
Tenzing Norgay of Nepal and Edmund Hillary of New Zealand, left, show the kit they wore when conquering the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, on May 29, 1953 at the British Embassy in Katmandu, capital of Nepal, June 26, 1953.
It has been 60 years since Tenzing and Hillary became the first to summit the mountain.
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Sherpa Tenzing Norgay
Sherpa Tenzing Norgay stands on the summit of Mount Everest after he and climbing partner Edmund Hillary became the first people to reach it, May 29, 1953.
Hillary said he removed his oxygen gear to take photographs, and after about 10 minutes realized his movements were becoming clumsy from a lack of oxygen and put on his tanks and mask again. There are no photographs of Hillary at the summit. "But you can take my word for it: I was there," he said.
Edmund Hillary
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Visitors look at photos and philatelics of Mount Everest on the occasion of the Everest Diamond Jubilee celebration in Kathamndu, May 27, 2013.
This week Nepal celebrates the 60th anniversary of the maiden summit of Mount Everest on May 29th, 1953 by Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary.
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Sherpa Tensing Norgay
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Sir Edmund Hillary
Sir Edmund Hillary and his wife display a book about his victory over Mt. Everest as they arrive in a train in Val D'Isere, France, January 1954.
Hillary, a mountaineer, explorer, author and lecturer was born in Auckland, New Zealand. As a member of Hunt's Everest expedition he reached, with Tenzing Norgay, the summit of Mt. Everest in 1953, for which he was knighted.
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A team of climbers led by 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura stand on the summit of Mount Everest, May 23, 2013. Miura became the oldest man to reach the top of Mount Everest, a Nepali official and Miura's Tokyo-based support team said.George Mallory
British mountain climber George Mallory, who died while scaling Mount Everest in 1924, on the Moine ridge of the Aiguille Verte mountain in France, 1909.
Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine led a 1924 British expedition assault on Everest and failed to return, but ever since speculation continues that they may have actually been the first to reach the highest point on the planet.
Sir Edmund Hillary
Sir Edmund Hillary arrives at Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, May 23, 2003.
Hillary arrived with his wife to participate in Everest Golden Jubilee celebrations marking the conquest of the Mt Everest.
Hillary along with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first to scale the world's tallest peak, May 29, 1953.
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Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay
"The Nepalese Sherpas are a naturally gifted community, who without any proper training are able to climb tall mountains in the Himalayas carrying heavy loads for the climbers," said the president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, Ang Tshering Sherpa.
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Edmund Hillary, Mount Everest, Nepal
Sir Edmund Hillary
Sir Edmund Hillary, the New Zealand explorer who conquered Mount Everest in 1953, is shown at Banepa, Nepal, March 12, 1963.