Remembering Tenzing, Hillary

Tue, 29 May 2012

16:18

Shankkar Aiyar @ShankkarAiyar On this day in 1953, Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal and Edmund Hillary of New Zealand become the first to summit Mount Everest.

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