Who were the first two people to scale Mount Everest?

Edmund Hillary (New Zealander) and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay Sherpa (Nepali) were the frist people to summit Mount Everest (Sagarmatha) on 29th May 1953. read more

Edmund Hillary, shortly followed by Tenzing Norgay were thefirst to reach the summit of Mount Everest, they did so on the 29thMay 1953 at 11.30 in the morning. read more

The first person to place two feet on Mount Everest was not actually Sir Edmund Hillary nor Tenzing Norgay, both on may 29, 1953. It was in fact Surveyor Andrew Waugh, who was the first to accurately measure Mount Everest as 29,000 feet exactly. read more

They were the first people to ever reach the summit of Mount Everest. Earlier Attempts to Climb Mt. Everest Mount Everest had long been considered unclimbable by some and the ultimate climbing challenge by others. read more