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2013: Ministers, church members and guests celebrate the official opening of thenewly-extended and refurbished Fort William Baptist Church. Picture: Iain Ferguson,The Write Image.
After Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to ascend the mountain on May 29, 1953, the news was kept a closely guarded secret and announced on Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation Day on June 2.