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...Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal became the first human beings to conquer Mount Everest--Chomolungma, to its people--at 29,028 ft. the highest place on earth. By any rational standards, this was no big deal. Aircraft had long before flown over the summit, and within a few decades literally hundreds of other people from many nations would climb Everest too. And what is particularly remarkable, anyway, about getting to the top of a mountain...
...Number of climbers' bodies--including George Mallory's--discovered on a single face of Mount Everest recently between 27,000 ft. and the summit...
...Total number of climbers believed to have died on Mount Everest...
...person than Edmund Hillary said he was willing to accept the possibility that Mallory got there first," says Kluger. "That was a generous statement from the person who would be surrendering his place in the pantheon of explorers." Hillary and sherpa Tenzing Norgay, were the first to successfully reach Everest?s peak in 1953. Team members expressed the hope to return another time to search for Irvine and the camera. Before leaving Mallory, they paid him their last respects. They gathered rocks and buried him, to rest forever in peace in the mountain he tried to conquer...