New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986), who on 29 May 1953, became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of the world's tallest mountain, Mount Everest in the Himalayas
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