Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal plant four flags at the peak of Mount Everest - 8,850 m (29,035 ft) above sea level and become the first explorers to top Everest.

As early as the 1920s, attempts were made to scale Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain. However, no climbers succeeded until Hillary and Norgay on May 29, 1953.

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