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On This Day: 29 May 1953: Hillary and Tenzing Conquer Everest URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/29/newsid_2492000/2492683.stm Description: This site describes how "New Zealander Edmund Hillary, and the Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, ... [became] the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the Nepal-Tibet border. News of the conquest of Mount Everest did not reach the outside world until 2 June [1953]." Features a video of an interview with Hillary from July 1953, articles about other climb participants, and an Everest timeline. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). LII Topics: Climbing, Mountains, & Mountaineering, Explorers, Notable People, Outdoor Recreation Publisher: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) LII Database Information: Record 25248 created by Maria Brandt on 01/10/2008 Last modification on 01/14/2008 Published: 01/17/2008 Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25248 |
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