Conquering Everest

On 29th May, 1953, two men conquered Everest. Mount Everest, standing majestically around 29000 feet above sea level is the highest mountain in the world.

And it is every mountain climber's dream. The ultimate challenge. To scale its peak once in their lifetime.

There have been many who have achieved this heroic feat, but at the beginning there were two.

Their name were  Edmund Hillary. and Tenzing Norgay

 

Did you know that Mount Everest was initially called Peak XV. Only in the year 1865, it was renamed as Mount Everest, after Sir George Everest who was the Surveyor General of India in 1840s.

It also has been given its name in various languages of land like  Nepali, Tibetan and Chinese.

Hillary and Norgay were 33 and 38 years of age respectively at the time.

Mount Everest has Nepal China border going through its summit. At the time of their expedition, they chose to scale the peak starting from the south-east side of the mountain, since the northern side was China and may have been closed at the time.