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Robert, Uhlig. "How Edmund Hillary conquered Everest." Telegraph. N.p., 12 Jan 2008. Web. 14 May 2013. , climbers. "Seven rules of surviving." climbers guide to Everest. Climbers, 8 Apr 2003. Web....

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Seven rules of surviving - climbers guide to Everest - 2 views

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    To the above; witnessing accidents and deaths of other climbers.
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Life Magazine July 13, 1953 Mount Everest story | Summiting Everest: Nothing Like the F... - 1 views

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  • On the anniversary of the pair’s triumph, LIFE.com looks back at that remarkable time with some
  • It’s been well over half-a-century since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to summit the world’s tallest mountain, and even six long decades later their feat resonates as one of the 20th century’s enduring, signature moments. On the anniversary of the pair’s triumph, LIFE.com looks back at that remarkable time with some
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HowStuffWorks "Mount Everest Pictures" - 1 views

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    a Welsh surveyor and geographer who was Surveyor-General of India from 1830 to 1843.
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The First to Climb Mount Everest - Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay - 1 views

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  • After years of dreaming about it and seven weeks of climbing, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Tenzing Norgay reached the top of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, at 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953. They were the first people to ever reach the summit of Mount Everest.
  • Mount Everest had long been considered unclimbable by some and the ultimate climbing challenge by others.
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Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay - 1953 Everest - 0 views

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  • Edmund Hillary (
  • ay reached the 29,035-foot summit of Everest on May 29, 1953, becoming the first people to stand atop the world's highest mountain. Photograph by AP
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Tenzing Norgay - 1 views

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    Quote: "It has been a long road...From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax." paraphrase: According to Tenzing Norgay he is on top of the world, but yet with a consequence.
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George Hillary - 1 views

www.mnteverest.net/quote.html

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    Quote: "The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy." Paraphrase: According to George Hillary Everest is a force to be reckoned with. You look at it and it is intimidating, and frozen but yet you think to yourself "Why not?"
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Sir Edmund Hillary - 1 views

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    Quote: "A symmetrical, beautiful snow cone summit." said Edmund Hillary. Paraphrase: According to Edmund Hillary looking up at a mountain the mountain can look tasty.
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