Nepal commemorates first successful Everest ascent
29/05/2013
New Zealand mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary and local guide Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the only two members of a UK expedition to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain. They arrived on May 29 1953.
At a special commemorative event in Kathmandu, Nepal’s tourism minister, Ram Kumar Shrestha, presented awards to Reinhold Messner, from the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol, who in 1978 became the first climber to reach the summit of Everest without supplementary oxygen, and Phurba Tashi Sherpa Mendewa, who jointly holds the record for the number of completed ascents, 21.
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