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On Top of the World: Hillary and Norgay’s Triumph on Everest

On May 29, 1953, two men from very different worlds stood together at the summit of human achievement. Sir Edmund Hillary, a beekeeper and mountaineer from New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa climber from Nepal, had just reached the highest point on Earth — the summit of Mount Everest. This historic moment was the …

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Every Dead Body on Mount Everest was Once a Highly Motivated Person

a close up of a mountain