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May 29 1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay Become the First People to Conquer Mount Everest
by Vishul MalikAt 29,029 feet (8,848 meters), Mount Everest is the highest peak in the world. Mount Everest had long been unconquerable. The Himalayas, themselves, had been forbidding and defied navigation due…