Mount+Everest



Mt. Everest is in the Himalayas along with at least 50 other mountains. Which is located on the borderline of Nepal and Tibet. Mt. Everest is 29,029 ft above sea level. It is the tallest mountain on Earth. Its name means //Head of the Sky// in Nepali. In 1953, a British expedition, led by John Hunt. He selected two climbing pairs to attempt to reach the summit. Tom Bourdillon and Charles Evans was the first team and they came within 300 feet of the summit on 26 May 1953, but had to turn back after becoming exhausted. Two days later, the second team in the expedition made its assault on the summit. The second team was the New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal. They summited at 11:30 a.m. local time on 29 May 1953 via the South Col Route. Both acknowledged it as a team effort by the whole expedition,at the time. But a few years later Tenzing revealed that Hillary had put his foot on the summit first.

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