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Nepal commemorates first successful Everest ascent

29/05/2013

A mountain marathon and a cultural procession in Kathmandu are among the events organised by the government of Nepal on May 29 to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the first successful ascent of Mount Everest. New Zealand mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary and local guide Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the only two members of a UK expedition to reach the...

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