who was this? i need it for homework and i cant find it on google for some reason =/
2007-09-24 08:57:32 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
In 1953, a ninth British expedition, led by John Hunt, returned to Nepal. Hunt selected two climbing pairs to attempt to reach the summit. The first pair (Tom Bourdillon and Charles Evans) came within 300 feet of the summit on 26 May, but turned back after becoming exhausted. The next day, the expedition made its second and final assault on the summit with its second climbing pair. The summit was eventually reached at 11:30 a.m. local time on May 29, 1953 by the New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay from Nepal climbing the South Col Route. At the time, both acknowledged it as a team effort by the whole expedition, but Tenzing revealed a few years later that Hillary had put his foot on the summit first.
2007-09-24 09:05:47 · answer #1 · answered by Randy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand beekeeper, and Tenzing Norgay, an acclaimed Sherpa climber, became the first to reach the roof of the world. Their climb was made from the Nepalese side, which had eased its restrictions on foreigners at about the same time that Tibet, invaded in 1950 by China, shut its borders.
2007-09-24 16:44:24 · answer #2 · answered by DrIG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay are both credited with being the first people to climb Everest.
2007-09-24 16:05:52 · answer #3 · answered by Nature Boy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sir Edmund Hillary
2007-09-24 16:23:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Edmund Hilary in 1953
2007-09-24 17:08:03 · answer #5 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sir George Mallory attempted Everest in 1924. He was killed, although it is possible he made the summit first. The evidence is inconclusive. Hilary and Norgay are the first known to have conquered the mountain.
2007-09-24 16:14:56 · answer #6 · answered by aboukir200 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
edmund hilary on the may 29th 1953
2007-09-24 16:05:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
http://www.mnteverest.net/history.html
That site has great info on Mt. Everest, including th first solo, and group, ascent!
2007-09-24 16:04:10 · answer #8 · answered by abita_girl 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The first I've heard was Hillary (but maybe one of the
sherpas had a name too).
2007-09-24 16:03:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋