Hillary and Tenzing Summit Everest: First Humans on Top of the World
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered the 40-foot "Hillary Step" on May 29, 1953, to become the first humans to stand atop Mount Everest's 29,028-foot summit. Their fifteen-minute visit forced a global shift in how humanity perceives its own physical limits and sparked an immediate surge in mountaineering interest that reshaped high-altitude exploration.
May 29, 1953
73 years ago
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