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Mount Everest
Mount Everest – also called Sagarmāthā (Nepali: सगरमाथा), Chomolungma or Qomolangma (Tibetan: ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ) or Zhumulangma (Chinese: 珠穆朗玛峰 Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng) – is the highest mountain on Earth, and the highest point on the Earth's crust, as measured by the height above sea level of its summit, 8,848...
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Tenzing Norgay
Tenzing Norgay, GM (late May 1914 — 9 May 1986) born Namgyal Wangdi and often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepali Indian Sherpa mountaineer who later settled in India. Among the most famous mountain climbers in history, he was one of the...
Date of birth:
- May 1914
Date of death:
- May 9, 1986 (age 72 years)
Edmund Hillary
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the...
Date of birth:
- Jul 20, 1919
Date of death:
- Jan 11, 2008 (age 88 years)
