KATHMANDU Seventy years ago, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepali Tenzing Norgay Sherpa became the first humans to summit Everest on May 29, 1953. The British expedition made the two men household names around the world and changed mountaineering forever.Hundreds now climb the 8,849-metre peak every year, fuelling concerns of overcrowding and pollution on the
KATHMANDU Seventy years ago, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepali Tenzing Norgay Sherpa became the first humans to summit Everest on May 29, 1953. The British expedition made the two men household names around the world and changed mountaineering forever.Hundreds now climb the 8,849-metre peak every year, fuelling concerns of overcrowding and pollution on the
Kathmandu, Nepal - Seventy years ago, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepali Tenzing Norgay Sherpa became the first humans to summit Everest on May 29,