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  • The first who climbed to mountain Everest are New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Tenzing Norgay
  • They reached the top of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, at 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953.
  • They were the first people to ever reach the summit of Mount Everest.
  • Before Hillary and Tenzing successfully reached the summit, two other expeditions got close. Most famous of these was the 1924 climb of George Leigh Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine. They climbed Mount Everest at a time when the aid of compressed air was still new and controversial. The pair of climbers was last seen still going strong at the Second Step (about 28,140 - 28,300 ft).
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