At 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953, New Zealand beekeeper Edmund Percival Hillary and Nepalese mountaineer Tenzing Norgay reach Mount Everest's summit, at some 29,028 feet (8,848 meters).
Photograph by Jodi Cobb
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