This year, Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) is set to hoist the national flag at Kalapathar on the occasion of its 50th year of establishment on November 1.
KATHMANDU, May 29: Today is the 16th International Everest Day and the 70th anniversary of Everest. May 29 marks 70 years since the first successful ascent of Mt Everest, the world's highest peak.
On May 29, 1953, Hillary, a beekeeper from New Zealand and his Sherpa guide Norgay scripted history by becoming the first human beings to scale the treacherous terrains of the world's highest mountain peak.
KATHMANDU, April 16: It has been 70 years since the highest peak of the world, Sagarmatha, was climbed by humans. Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Sir Edmund Hillary were atop the Sagarmatha, Mt Everest, on May 29, 1953.